duplex querela
duplex querela (d[y]oo-pleks kw[schwa]-ree-l[schwa]). 1. Hist. Eccles. law. An appeal by a clerk to the archbishop in response to the bishop’s delaying or wrongfully refusing to do justice. 2. Eccles. law. An appeal to a person’s immediate superior, as when a bishop appeals to an archbishop. — Also termed double quarrel; double complaint.