BILL QUIA TIMET. A bill to guard against possible future injuries and to con serve present rights from possible destruc tion or serious impairment. The limits of the application of the remedy are not clearly defined, but it rests on the principle of re lieving the party and his title from some claim or liability which may, if enforced, en tail serious loss. Such a bill may be filed when a person is entitled to property of a personal nature after another's death, and has reason to apprehend it may be destroyed by the present possessor ; or when he is ap prehensive of being subjected to a future in convenience, probable, or even possible, to happen or be occasioned by the neglect, in advertence, or culpability of another; or when he seeks to be relieved against an in valid title, claim, or incumbrance which has been created by the act of another. See 3 Daniell, Ch. Pr. 1961, n. Another illustra tion of the application of the remedy is in case of a counterhond; although the surety is not troubled for the money, after it be comes payable, a decree for its payment may be had against the principal, or when a trustee has incurred liability as the holder of shares for another under a covenant of indemnity, against liability ; L. R. 7 Ch. 395.
Upon a proper case being made out, the court will, in one case, secure the property for the use of the party (which is the ob ject of the bill), by compelling the person in possession of it to give a proper security against any subsequent disposition or wilful destruction ; and, in the other case, they will quiet the party's apprehension of future inconvenience, by removing the causes which may lead to it ; 1 Madd. Ch. Pr. 218 ; 2 Story, Eq. Jur. §§ 825, 851. See BILL TO QUIET POSSESSION AND TITLE; BILL OF PEACE.