Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Abbreviationum ille numerus et sensus accipiendus est ut concessio non sit inanis
Such number and sense is to be given to abbreviations that the grant may not be void.
Benigne faciendae sunt interpretations chartarum, ut res magis valeat quam pereat; et quaelibet concessio fortissime contra donatorem interpretanda est
Deeds should be subject to liberal interpretation, so that the matter may take effect rather than fail; and every grant is to be taken most strongly against the grantor.
Concessi
[Latin] Hist. I have granted. ( Concessi grants a covenant in a lease for years; it does not warrant title. Concessi often appeared in the phrase demisi, concessi, et ad firmam tradidi ("demised, granted, and let to farm"). Cf. DEDI. "Concessi (a word much used in Conveyances). In Law it creates a Covenant, as Dedi does a Warranty." Thomas Blount, Nomo-Lexicon: A Law-Dictionary (1670).
Concessio per regem ieri debet de certitudine
A grant by the king ought to be made of a certainty. ( Coke explains, "If the king grants to me that I shall not be sheriff, without showing of what county, it is void for uncertainty." 9 Coke 46b.
Concessio versus concedentem latam interpretationem habere debet
A grant ought to have a liberal interpretation against the grantor.
Concession
n. 1. A government grant for specific privileges. 2. The voluntary yielding to a demand for the sake of a settlement. 3. A rebate or abatement. 4. Int'Z law. A contract in which a country transfers some rights to a foreign enterprise which then engages in an activity (such as mining) contingent on state approval and subject to the terms of the contract. - concede, vb. - concessive, adj.
Falsa grammatica non vitiat concessionem.
False or bad grammar does not vitiate a grant. Neither false Latin nor false English will make a deed void when the intent of the,parties plainly appears.
Falsa orthographia sive falsa grammatica non vitiat concessionem
Error in spelling or grammar does not vitiate a grant.
Libertates regales ad coronam spectantes ex concessione regum a corona exierunt
Royal franchises relating to the Crown have emanated from the Crown by grant of kings.
Quaelibet concessio fortissime contra donatorem interpretanda est
Every grant is to be construed most strongly against the grantor.
Qui concedit aliquid, concedere videtur et id sine quo res ipsa esse non potuit (sine quo concessio est irrita)
A person who grants anything is considered as granting that without which the thing itself could not be (without which the grant is invalid).( More precisely, Cuicunque aliquis quid concedit (q.v.). 11 Coke 52.
concessimus
[Latin] Hist. We have granted. ( Concessimus is a term of conveyance that creates a joint covenant on the part of the grantors.s
concessio
[Latin] Hist. A grant. ( A term of conveyance used to convey incorporeal property. Pl. concessiones. "Grants, concessiones; the regular method by the common law of transferring the property of incorporeal hereditaments, or, such things whereof no livery can be had. For which reason all corporeal hereditaments, as lands and houses, are said to lie in livery; and the others, as advowsons, commons, rents, reversions, etc., to lie in grant .... These therefore pass merely by the delivery of the deed." 2 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 317 (1766).
concession bargaining
Labor law. A type of collective bargaining in which the parties negotiate the employees' giving back previously gained improvements in wages, benefits, or working conditions in exchange for some form of job security, such as protection against layoffs. - Also termed employee givebacks; union givebacks. See COLLECTIVE BARGAINING.
concessit solvere
[Latin "he agreed to pay"] Hist. A form of debt action on a simple contract. ( The plaintiff alleged that the defendant had granted and agreed to pay to the plaintiff the sum sued for, but had not done so. The defendant responded with a plea of nunquam indebitatus ("never indebted"). See indebitatus assumpsit under ASSUMPSIT; NUNQUAM INDEBITATUS; COMMON COUNT.
dedi et concessi
[Law Latin] I have given and conveyed. ( These were the words generally used to convey a gift.
dedimus et concessimus
[Law Latin] We have given and granted. 0 These words were used in a conveyance when there was more than one grantor or when the grant was from the Crown.
ex concessis
[Latin] From the premises granted; according to what has already been allowed.
fine sur concessit
[Law French] Hist. A species of conveyance in which the cognizor does not acknowledge the cognizee's preceding right in land but grants the cognizee an estate de novo, usu. for life or years, by way of supposed composition. See FINE (1).
non concessit
n. [Law Latin "he did not grant"] Hist. 1. English law. The plea by which the defendant denies that certain rights were given by letters patent to the plaintiff. ( For example, if a plaintiff sues for the infringement of a patent right, the defendant can deny that the Crown granted the plaintiff that right as alleged in the plaintiff's declaration. 2. A plea by a stranger to a deed, by which the title and operation of the deed are placed in issue.