Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.

Assent

n. Agreement, approval, or permission. - assent, vb. See consent.

Assented stock

see stock.

Assenting-silence doctrine

the principle that an accusation will be taken as true, despite silence by the accused, if the accusation was made under circumstances in which silence can be fairly said to be an agreement. ( this doctrine is usu. Held to be invalid as a measure of a criminal defendant's guilt.

Constructive assent

assent imputed to someone based on conduct.

Express assent

assent that is clearly and unmistakably communicated.

Implied assent

assent inferred from one's conduct rather than from direct expression. Mutual assent see mutual assent.

Qui non prohibet quod prohibere potest, assentire videtur

A person who does not forbid what he can forbid is considered to assent.

assented stock

Stock that an owner deposits with a third person according to an agreement by which the owner voluntarily accepts a change in the corporation's securities.

constructive assent

See ASSENT.

express assent

See ASSENT.

implied assent

See ASSENT.

insimul computassent

[Law Latin "they accounted together"] Hist. A count in an assumpsit action asserting that the parties had reviewed their accounts and that the defendant voluntarily agreed to pay the amount sought by the plaintiff. 0 This term derives from the initial words of the count.

mutual assent

Agreement by both parties to a contract, usu. in the form of offer and acceptance. ( In modern contract law, mutual assent is determined by an objective standard - that is, by the apparent intention of the parties as manifested by their actions. Cf. MEETING OF THE MINDS.

mutuality of assent

See MEETINGS OF THE MINDS.