QUANTUM VALEBAT (Lat. as much as it was worth). In Pleading. When goods are sold without specifying any price, the law implies a promise from the buyer to the seller that he will pay him for them as much as they were worth.
The plaintiff may, in such case, suggest in this declaratiort that the defendant pro mised to pay him as much as the said goods were worth, and then aver that they were worth so much, which the defendant has refused to pay. See the authorities cited under the article QUANTUM MEBUlT. QT7ARANTINE. In Maritime Law% The space of forty days, or less, during which the crew of a ship or vessel coming from a port or place infected or supposed to be in fected with disease are required to remain on board after their arrival, before they can be permitted to land.
2. The object of the quarantine is to ascer tain whether the crew are infected or not.
To break the quarantine without legal au thority is a misdemeanor. 1 Russell, Cnmes, 133.
In cases of insurance of ships, the insurer is responsible when the insurance extends to her being moored in port twenty-four hours in safety, although she may have arrived, if before the twenty-four hours are expired she is ordered to perform quarantine, if any acci dent contemplated by the policy occur. 1 Marshall, Ins. 264.
In Real Property. The space of forty days during which a widow has a right to remain in her late husband's principal man sion immediately after his death. The right of the widow is also called her quarantine.
3. In some, perhaps all, of the states of the United States,.provision has been expressly made by statute securing to the widow this right for a greater or lesser space of time. In
Massachusetts, Mass. Gen. Stat. c. 90, 1 18, and New York, 4 Kent, Comm. 62, the widow is entitled to the mansion-house for forty days; in Ohio and North Carolina, for one year. Walker, Am. Law, 231, 324. In Alabama, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Virginia, she may occupy till dower is assigned ; in Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, NewJersey, and Virginia, she may also occupy the plantation or messuage. In Pennsylvania the statute of 9 Hen. in. c. 7, is in force, Rob. Dig. 176, by which it is declared that " a widow shall tarry in the chief house of her husband forty days after his death, within which her dower shall be assigned her." In Massachusetts the widow is entitled to support and supplies for the house for forty days ; in North Caro lina., for one year.
4. Quarantine is a personal right, for feited, by implication of law, by a second marriage. Coke, Litt. 32. See Ind. Rev. L. 209 ; 1 Va. Rev. Code, 170 ; Ala. Laws, 260 , Mo. St. 229 ; Ill. Rev. Laws, 237 N. J. Rev. Code, 397 1 Ky. Rev. Laws, 57'3. See Bacon Abr. _dower (B); Coke, Litt. 32 b, 34 b; 'Coke, 2d Inst. 16, 17.
WARE (Lat.). In Pleading. Where fore.
This word sometinnee used in the writ In eel, tain actions) but is inadMissible in a material aver ment in the pleadings, for it is merely interrogatory ; and, therefore, when a declaration began with com plaining of the defendant, "wherefore with force) ete. be broke and entered' the plaintiff's close, it was considered ill. flacon, Abr. Pleas (B 6, 4); Gould, Plead. e. 3, ?, 34.