Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Acta exteriora indicant interiora secreta
Outward acts indicate the thoughts hidden within.
Arcana imperii
i latin] state secrets.
Arches court of canterbury
see court of arches.
Assignable, adj. That can be assigned; transferable from one person to another, so that the transferee has the same rights as the transferor had <assignable right>. Cf. Negotiable. Assignable lease
see lease.
Association of american law schools
an organization of law schools that have each graduated at least three annual classes of students. - abbr. Aals.
Breviarium Alaricanum
[Latin] An abridgment (or breviary) of Roman law compiled by order of the Visigoth king Alaric II, published for the use of his Roman subjects in the year 506. ( The compilation was known before the 16th century as the Lex Romana Visigothorum. It was also termed the Breviarium Aniani after Alaric's chancellor, Anian, who edited and distributed the work. - Also termed Breviary of Alaric (bree-vee-er-ee av al-a-rik). "Though the Breuiarium was later replaced by the Lex Visigothorum in the Visigothic kingdom, it continued in use in southern France and Lombardy, which had meantime passed under the dominion of the Franks. Its qualities made the Breuiarium a book of high authority throughout the whole of western Europe during the Middle Ages and it was one of the main channels through which Roman law entered western European law prior to the Reception." David M. Walker, The Oxford Companion to Law 151-52 (1980).
Can
ub. 1. To be able to do something <you can lift 500 pounds>. 2. To have permission (as often interpreted by courts); MAY <no appeal can be filed until the filing fee is paid>.
Cancel
ub. 1. To destroy a written instrument by defacing or obliterating it <she canceled her will by marking through it>. 2. To terminate a promise, obligation, or right <the parties canceled the contract>.
Cancellarii angliae dignitas est, ut secundus a rege in regno habetur
The dignity of the chancellor of England is (such) that he is considered in the realm from the sovereign.
Cancellation
n. 1. The act of defacing or obliterating a writing (as by marking lines across it), thereby rendering it void. 2. An annulment or termination of a promise or an obligation.
Cancellatura
Hist. See CANCELLATION
Cancelli
[Latin "lattice, grille"] Archaic. 1. Lines drawn on a writing, esp. a will, indicating its revocation. See CANCELLATION (1). 2. Hist. The rails or latticework enclosing the bar of a court.
Canfara
[Law Latin] Hist. A trial by hot iron, formerly used in England. See ordeal by fire under ORDEAL.
Canon
n. 1. A rule or principle, esp. one accepted as fundamental.
Canon of construction
See canon (1)
Canon of descent.
See canon
Canvass
ub. 1. To examine in detail; scrutinize <that issue has been repeatedly canvassed by our state's courts>. 2. To solicit political support from voters or a voting district; to take stock of public opinion <the candidate is actively canvassing the Western states>. - canvass, n.
Central American Court of Justice
A court created by a 1908 convention between Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua, to guarantee the rights of the various republics to maintain peace and harmony in their relations and to prevent recourse to the use of force. ( The convention expired after ten years, and the court ceased to exist in 1918.
Concordia discordantium canonum
. [Latin "the harmony of the discordant canons"] Hist. A collection of ecclesiastical authorities compiled by Gratian, an Italian monk, ca. 1140. 0 Gratian analyzed questions of law by drawing conclusions from side-by-side comparisons of a variety of texts. Later canonist scholarship usu. proceeded from Gratian's work. -Also termed Decretum Gratiani; Decretum.
Corpus Juris Canonici
[Latin] Hist. The body of the canon law, compiled from the decrees and canons of the Roman Catholic Church. & The Corpus Juris Canonici emerged during the 12th century, beginning with the publication of Gratian's Decretum (1141-1150). In addition to the Decretum, it includes Raymond of Pennaforte's Liber Extra (1234), the Liber Sextus of Pope Boniface VIII (1298), the Clementines of Pope Clement V (1313), the Extrauagantes Joannis of Pope John NMI (1325), and extrauagantes published by Pope John's successors (1499-1502). In 1582, the entire collection was edited by a commission of church dignitaries and officially named the Corpus Juris Canonici. It remained the Catholic Church's primary body of law until the promulgation of the Code of Canon Law in 1917, now replaced by that of 1983.
Court of Canterbury
See COURT OF ARCHES.
Curia cancellariae oicina justitiae
The court of chancery is the workshop of justice.
Decimae de jure divino et canonica institutione pertinent ad personam.
Tithes belong to the parson by divine right and canonical institution.
Excommunicant
n. Eccles. law. 1. An excommunicated person. 2. Rare. An excommunicator.
Fleta seu Commentarius Juris Anglicani
Hist. The title of an ancient treatise on English law, composed in the 13th century and first printed in 1647. ( The work is largely derivative, being based on Bracton's De Legibus et Consuetudinibus. The unknown author may have been a judge or lawyer who wrote the treatise while in London's Fleet prison. - Often shortened to Fleta.
Flumina et portus publica sunt, ideoque jus piscandi omnibus commune est
Rivers and ports are public; and therefore the right of fishing is common to all.
Furian Caninian law
See LEX FURIA CANINIA.
Fusian Caninian law.
See LEX FURIA CANINIA.
Impius et crudelis judicandus est qui liber. tati non favet
A person is to be judged impi. ous and cruel who does not favor liberty.
Inter-American Bar Association
An organization of lawyers from North America, Central America, and South America whose purpose is to promote education, cooperation, and professional exchanges among lawyers from different American countries. - Abbr. IABA.
Intoxicant
n. A substance (esp. liquor) that deprives a person of the ordinary use of the senses or of reason.
Jamaican switch
An illegal scheme whereby one conspirator convinces the victim of a need for help in handling a large sum of money, usu. by claiming to have found the money or by claiming to be an unsophisticated foreigner, and promises to share part of the money with the victim or asks the victim for help in finding a suitable charity to donate to, at which time the other conspirator appears and promises to assist if both the victim and first conspirator provide good-faith money, the intent being for the two conspirators to leave with all the money, including the victim's.
Judicandum est legibus non exemplis
Judgment must be given by the laws, not by examples.
Laidlaw vacancy
Under the National Labor Relations Act, a genuine opening in an employer's workforce, resulting from the employer's expanding its workforce or discharging a particular employee, or from an employee's resigning or otherwise leaving the employment. ( The opening is required to be offered to striking workers, in order of seniority, after a strike has been resolved. Laidlaw Corp. v. NLRB, 414 F.2d 99 (7th Cir. 1969).
Libertinum ingratum leges civiles in pristinam servitutem redignunt; sed leges Angliae semel manumissum semper liberum judicant
The civil laws reduce an ungrateful freedman to his original slavery; but the laws of England regard a person once manumitted as ever after free.
Mercantile Law Amendment Acts
The Mercantile Law Amendment Act of 1856 (19 & 20 Vict., chs. 60, 97) and the Mercantile Law Amendment Act (Scotland) of 1856, passed primarily to reconcile parts of the mercantile laws of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
Mexican divorce
See DIVORCE.
Mexican divorce.
A divorce obtained in Mexico by mail order or by the appearance of one spouse who does not have a Mexican domicile. ( Neither type is recognized in the United States.
Monetandi jus comprehenditur in regalibus quae nunquam a regio sceptro abdicantur
The right of coining is included among those rights of royalty that are never relinquished by the kingly scepter.
Nimium altercando veritas amittitur
By too much quarreling truth is lost.
Non exemplis sed legibus judicandum est
Not by examples but by the laws must judgment be made.
North American Free Trade Agreement
A trilateral treaty - entered into on January 1, 1994 between the United States, Canada, and Mexico - that phases out all tariffs and eliminates many nontariff barriers (such as quotas) inhibiting the free trade of goods between the participating nations. - Abbr. NAFTA.
Nullus recedat a curia cancellaria sine remedio
Let no one depart from the court of chancery without a remedy.
Publicanus
[Latin] A farmer of the public revenue; that is, a tax collector.
Quaecunque intra rationem legis inveniuntur, intra legem ipsam esse judicantur
Whatever appears within the reason of the law is considered within the law itself.
Quaelibet jurisdictio cancellos suos habet
Every jurisdiction has its boundaries.
Respiciendum est judicanti nequid aut durius aut remissius constituatur quam causes deposcit; nec enim aut severitatis aut clementiae gloria affectanda est
The person judging must see to it that nothing should be either more severely or more leniently construed than the cause itself demands; neither for severity nor clemency is glory to be sought after.
Scandal
1. Disgraceful, shameful, or degrading acts or conduct. 2. Slander. See SCANDALOUS MATTER.
Toxicant
n. A poison; a toxic agent; any substance capable of producing toxication or poisoning.
Vacancy
n. 1. The state or fact of a lack of occupancy in an office, post, or piece of property. 2. The time during which an office, post, or piece of property is not occupied. 3. An unoccupied office, post, or piece of property; an empty place. ( Although the term sometimes refers to an office or post that is temporarily filled, the more usual reference is to an office or post that is unfilled even on a temporary basis. An officer's misconduct does not create a vacancy even if a suspension occurs; a vacancy, properly speaking, does not occur until the officer is officially removed.