audita querela

== English == === Etymology === Latin audita querela (“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. === References === “audita querela”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.