QUART, measures. A quart is a liquid measure containing one-fourth part of a gallon.

QUARTER. A measure of length, equal to four inches. Vide Measure.

To QUARTER. A barbarous punishment formerly inflicted on criminals by tearing them to pieces by means of four horses, one attached to each limb.

QUARTER DAY. One of the four days of the year on which rent payable quarterly becomes due.

QUARTER DOLLAR, money. A silver coin of the United States of the value of twenty-five cents.

2. It weighs one hundred and threee and one-eighth grains. Of one thousand parts, nine hundred are of pure silver and one hundred of alloy. Act of January 18, 1837, s. 8 and 9, 4 Sharsw. L. U. S. 2523, 4. Vide Money.

QUARTER EAGLE, money. A gold coin of the United States of the value of two dollars and a half.

2. It weighs sixty-four and one-half grains. Of one thousapd parts, nine hundred are of pure gold, and one hundred of alloy. Act of January, 18, 1837, S. 8 and 10, 4 Sharsw. cont. of Story's L. U. S. 2523, 4. Vide Money.

QUARTER SEAL. The seal kept by the director of the chancery in Scotland is so called. It is in the shape and impression of the fourth part of the great seal. Bell's Scotch Law Diet. h. t.

QUARTER SESSIONS.A court bearing this name, mostly invested with the trial of criminals. It takes its name from sitting quarterly or once in three months.

2. The English courts of quarter sessions were erected during the reign of Edward III. Vide Stat. 36 Edward III. Crabb's Eng. L. 278.

QUARTER YEAR. In the computation of time, a quarter year consists of ninety-one days. Co. Litt. 135 b; 2 Roll. Ab. 521, l. 40; Rev. Stat. of N. Y. part 1, c. 19, t. 1, 3.

QUARTERING OF SOLDIERS. The constitution of the United States, Amendm. art. 3, provides that "no soldier shall in time of peace be quartered, in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war but in a manner to be prescribed by law." By quartering is understood boarding and lodging or either. Encycl. Amer. h. t.

QUARTEROON. One who has had one of his grand parents of the black or African race.