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  • Friday's term was quantum meruit, which is defined as:

    Define That Term #103 2006

  • Friday's term was quantum meruit, which is defined as:

    Sui Generis--a New York law blog: 2006

  • Palmam qui meruit ferat -- Let whoever earns the palm bear it.

    Gina Nahai: And You Thought Wal-Mart Employees Had it Bad 2009

  • Apart from quantum meruit, the court could have also plausibly found that the pricing scheme from the original design was incorporated into the second contract, on the grounds that the customer assumed it was, and was entitled to do so.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Property Rights in Web Sites: 2009

  • Palmam qui meruit ferat -- Let whoever earns the palm bear it.

    Gina Nahai: The Great Shame of America's Colleges 2009

  • Non fuit vasti spatium per orbis sanctior quisquam genitus Iohanne, qui nefas saecli meruit lavantem tingere limphis.

    Archive 2008-06-01 bls 2008

  • Conscientia mea meruit damnationem, poenitentia non sufficit ad satisfactionem: sed tua misericordia superat omnem offensionem.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Cosmo Paccio Interpret. nihil ab aeris caligine aut figurarum varietate impeditus meram pulchritudinem meruit, exultans et misericordia motus, cognatos amicos qui adhuc morantur in terra tuetur, errantibus succurrit, &c. Deus hoc jussit ut essent genii dii tutelares hominibus, bonos juvantes, males punientes,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • My intent, the next time I turn in a cat who is claimed, is to sue the city and the owner for my expenses in quantum meruit.

    A man shoots a feral cat that was stalking endangered shore birds. Ann Althouse 2007

  • Consider the excellency of virgins, [5804] Virgo coelum meruit, marriage replenisheth the earth, but virginity Paradise; Elias, Eliseus, John Baptist, were bachelors: virginity is a precious jewel, a fair garland, a never-fading flower; [5805] for why was Daphne turned to a green bay-tree, but to show that virginity is immortal?

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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