A quantity surveyor (QS) is a professional working within the construction industry concerned with construction costs and contracts. Services provided by a quantity surveyor may include:1  Cost planning and commercial management throughout the entire life cycle of the project from inception to post-completion.2  Value engineering.ervices provided by a quantity surveyor may include: 1  Cost planning and commercial management throughout the entire life cycle of the project from inception to post-completion. 2  Value engineering.
divorce. n. 1. (Law) the dissolution of a marriage by judgment of a court or by accepted custom. 2. (Law) a judicial decree declaring a marriage to be dissolved. 3. a separation, esp one that is total or complete.
separation. SEPARATION, contracts. When the husband and wife agree to live apart they are said to have made a separation. 2. Contracts of this kind are generally made by the husband for himself and by the wife with trustees. 4 Paige's R. 516; 3 Paige's R. 483; 5 Bligh, N. S. 339; 1 Dow & Clark, 519.eparation. n. married persons living apart, either informally by one leaving the home or agreeing to separate while sharing a residence without sexual relations, or formally by obtaining a legal separation or negotiating a separation agreement setting out the terms of separate living.