Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
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.
Curia cancellariae oicina justitiae
The court of chancery is the workshop of justice.
Nullus recedat a curia cancellaria sine remedio
Let no one depart from the court of chancery without a remedy.
Quaelibet jurisdictio cancellos suos habet
Every jurisdiction has its boundaries.
a cancellando
[Law Latin] From canceling. "It has its name of chancery, cancellaria, from the judge who presides here, the lord chancellor or cancellarius; who, Sir Edward Coke tells us, is so termed a cancellando, from cancelling the king's letters patents when granted contrary to law ...." 3 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 46 (1768).
a cancellis
[Law Latin] Hist. A chancellor, so called because he performed the duties of office behind a cancelli ("lattice").
a cancellis curiae explodi
[Law Latin] Hist. To be expelled from the bar of the court.
animus cancellandi
[latin] the intention to cancel. ( this phrase usu. refers to a will.
canceled check
A check Bearing a notation that it has been paid by the bank on which it was drawn. 0 A canceled check is often used; as evidence of payment --- Also spelled can-celled check.
cancellaria
[Law Latin] See CHANCERY (I). - Also termed curia cancellaria.
cancellarius
[Law Latin] 1. A chailcellor, scrivener, or notary. 2. See Lord High Chancellor under CHANCELLOR.
cancellation clause
A contractual provision allowing one or both parties to annul their obligations under certain conditions.
cancelled check
See CHECK.
clerici de cancellaria
[Law Latin "clerks of the chancery"] Cursitors. - Also termed clerici de cursu. See CURSITOR.
curia cancellaria
See CANCELLARIA,
flat cancellation
The cancellation of an insurance policy without any charge to the insured. 3. An equitable remedy by which courts call in and annul outstanding void or rescinded instruments because they may either spawn vexatious litigation or cloud someone's title to property. - cancel, ub. - cancelable, adj.
flat cancellation.
See CANCELLATION.
hospitia cancellariae
Inns of chancery.
magister cancellariae
n. [Law Latin "master in chancery"] Hist. A master in chancery - so called because the officer was a priest.
noncancelability clause
An insurance-policy provision that prevents the insurer from canceling the policy after an insured's loss, as long as the premium has been paid.