Legal Definitions - toties quoties

Toties quoties is a Latin legal phrase meaning "as often as" or "as many times as." It is used to indicate that a particular condition, obligation, or right applies repeatedly, each time a specific event or circumstance occurs. Essentially, it means that something must be done or will happen every single time a certain trigger is met, without exception.

Here are some examples to illustrate this concept:

• Commercial Lease Agreement: Imagine a commercial lease agreement for a retail space that includes a clause stating the tenant is responsible for cleaning the exterior windows toties quoties the landlord deems it necessary, provided it's no more than once a month. This means that "as often as" the landlord determines the windows need cleaning (up to the monthly limit), the tenant is obligated to perform the cleaning. The duty repeats with each instance the condition is met.

• Software Licensing Contract: Consider a contract where a software developer licenses their proprietary code to another company. The agreement might stipulate that the licensee must pay a royalty of $10 for every new user account created using the licensed software. In this scenario, the obligation to pay the $10 royalty applies toties quoties a new user account is created. Each individual creation of a user account triggers a separate, identical payment obligation.

• Court Order or Injunction: A court might issue an injunction against a manufacturing plant, ordering it to cease discharging pollutants into a local river. The order could specify that toties quoties the plant exceeds a certain pollution threshold, it will incur a daily fine of $5,000. This means that "as often as" the plant violates the specified pollution limit, the daily fine will be imposed. The penalty is not a one-time event but recurs with each repeated violation of the court's order.