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locus in quo

[ loh-koos in kwoh; English loh-kuhs in kwoh ]

noun

Latin.
  1. the place in which; the very place; the scene of the event.


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His meticulous care in studying the locus in quo may serve to compensate for my lukewarmness as a student of homicide; nay more, his interest in the subject seems to have been infectious, for, having read his monograph of some five-and-twenty octavo pages on the subject since the foregoing sentence was penned, I am now distinctly conscious of being keen on the subject and of finding interest in it.

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I am quite willing to admit, with Eulenburg and others, that the evidence, powerful and varied though it be of the relations of neuralgia to hereditary neuroses, to alcoholic and senile degeneration, etc., only raises a strong probability that some part of the central nervous system is the locus in quo of the essential morbid processes in the majority of neuralgias.

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The locus in quo of the mischief which sets up this exaggerated conduction of sensory impression is, upon this theory, between the psychical centre and the main point of branching of the nerves; hence a large number of peripheral nerve-termini might be practically sensitive to touch, because the mischief, though localized in a comparatively small spot, might easily affect many bundles of fibres, which diverge widely from each other in their course.

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A several fishery, as already seen, being an incorporeal hereditament, can only be transferred by deed, and therefore cannot be abandoned, and so acquired by the public, even on proof that the public have, as far back as living memory, exercised the right of fishing in the locus in quo to the knowledge of and without interruption from the claimant of the fishery.

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By the time he had gotten many of his ship-yards well established, and ships well on their way to completion, the enemy would threaten the locus in quo, by land, and either compel him to attempt to remove everything movable, in great haste, and at great loss, or destroy it, to prevent it from falling into the hands of the enemy.

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