audita querela
English
Etymology
Latin for "the complaint having been heard".
Noun
audita querela (plural audita querelas)
- (law) A writ which lies for a party against whom judgment is recovered, but to whom good matter of discharge has subsequently accrued which could not have been availed of to prevent such judgment.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for audita querela in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)