Cadit quaestio, Latin for "the question falls," is a legal term used to indicate that a settlement to a dispute or issue has been reached, and is now resolved. In English, there is a similar idiom when people say that "the shoe has dropped." Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ...
In journalism, the abbreviation "CQ" is used to indicate that a fact, such as the spelling of a name, has been checked and found to be correct.
Cadit is the third person singular indicative active of the irregular Latin verb cado and quaestio is the nominative singular form of a third declension noun. These two words, together, form a sentence complete unto itself.
Non ergo correctio fraterna cadit sub debito caritatis.
Sed vitare scandala cadit sub praecepto, ut patet Rom.
Sic igitur ordo fraternae correctionis sub praecepto cadit, sicut et ipsa fraterna correctio; hac tamen discretione servata in utroque, ut debito loco, tempore, et aliis debitis circumstantiis observatis, omnia fiant secundum quod quis utile esse prospexerit ad emendationem fratris, quae est finis et regula correctionis fraternae.