Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Alias
See ALIAS.
Aliquid conceditur ne injuria remaneat ampunita quod alias non concederetur
Something is conceded that otherwise would not be conceded, so that a wrong not remain unpuir ished.
Illud quod alias licitum non est, necessitas facit licitum, et necessitas inducit privilegium quod jure privatur.
That which is not otherwise lawful, necessity makes lawful; and necessity brings in as a privilege what is denied by right. 10 Coke 61.
Iniquum est alias permittere, alios inhibere mercaturam
It is inequitable to permit some to trade and to prohibit others to do so.
Necessitas facit licitum quod alias non est licitum
Necessity makes lawful what otherwise is unlawful.
Necessitas sub lege non continetur, quia quod alias non est licitum necessitas facit licitum
Necessity is not restrained by law; since what otherwise is not lawful necessity makes lawful.
Quod alias bonum et justum est, si per vim vel fraudem petatur, malum et injustum effxcitur
What is otherwise good and just, if it is sought by force or fraud, becomes bad and unjust.
Quod alias non fuit licitum necessitas licitum facit
Necessity makes lawful what otherwise was unlawful.
alias
adj. issued after the first instrument has not been effective or resulted in action.
alias dictus
adu. [latin] otherwise called; alias (1).
alias execution
A second execution issued to enforce a judgment not fully satisfied by the original writ. Cf. alias writ under WRIT.
alias subpoena
see subpoena.
alias summons
A second summons issued after the original summons has failed for some reason.
alias writ
An additional writ issued after another writ of the same kind in the same case. ( It derives its name from a Latin phrase that formerly appeared in alias writs: sicut alias praecipimus, meaning "as we at another time commanded." Cf. alias execution under EXECUTION.
sicut alias
n. [Latin "as at another time"] Hist. A second writ issued when the first one was not executed. "But where a defendant absconds, and the plaintiff would proceed to an outlawry against him, an original writ must then be sued out regularly, and after that a capias. And if the sheriff cannot find the defendant upon the first writ . . . there issues out an alias writ, and after that a pluries, to the same effect as the former: only after these words 'we command you,' this clause is inserted, 'as we have formerly,' or, 'as we have often commanded you;' 'sicut alias' ...." 3 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 283 (1768).