QUANTUM MERUIT (See also:

• LAT

Lat. for " as much as he has de-served ")  , in the See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law of See also:

• CONTRACT
• CONTRACT (Lat. contract us, from contrahere, to draw together, to bind)

contract, originally a See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of See also:

• ACTION

action on the See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

case, grounded on a promise to pay the See also:

• PLAINTIFF

plaintiff for See also:

• WORK

work done as much as it was See also:

• WORTH
• WORTH, CHARLES FREDERICK (1825-1895)

worth . It has been abolished as a See also:

• SPECIAL

special form of action, but the See also:

• TERM

term is still in use where, in cases of special contract, there has been a See also:

• BREACH (Mid. Eng. breche, derived from the common Teutonic root brec, which appears in " break," Ger. brechen, &c.)

breach amounting to a See also:

• DISCHARGE (adapted from the O. Fr. discharge, modern decharge, from a med. Lat. discargare, to unload, dis- and earn care, to load, cf. " charge ")

discharge by one party before the other party has done all that he was See also:

• BOUND, or BOUNDARY (from O. Fr. bonde, Med. Lat. bodena or butina, a frontier line)

bound to do . In such a case the plaintiff sues for a quantum meruit or the value of so much as he has done .