Qui Tam definition:
Latin: who as well.
The expression qui tam is, in fact, an abbreviated form of a maxim of Roman law, expressed in Latin, ...
Qui Tam Action
(n) Qui Tam Action is a lawsuit initiated by any citizen who is involved in the subject matter of the case only by virtue of his citizenship interest in that country, ...
qui tam action
(kwee tam) n. from Latin for "who as well," a lawsuit brought by a private citizen (popularly called a "whistle blower") against a person or company who is believed to have violated the law in the performance of a contract with ...
QUI TAM, remedies. Who as well. When a statute imposes a penalty, for the doing or not doing an act, and gives that penalty in part to whosoever will sue for the same, and the other part to the commonwealth, or some charitable, literary, ...
Qui tam
Definition - adj
[Late Latin, who as much, who as well; from the first words of a clause referring to the plaintiff as one who sues as much for the state as for himself or herself] ...
Qui tam
Private attorney general
Further Reading
Suing the Tobacco and Lead Pigment Industries: Government Litigation as Public Health Prescription by Donald G. Gifford. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2010. ISBN: 978-0-472-11714-7 ...
proceedings in which an individual who has not suffered personally by a breach of the law sues as a common informer for the statutory penalty either on his own benefit or on behalf also of the Crown (qui tam pro rege quam pro se ipso), ...
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