Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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Constitutum
[Latin "agreed arrangement"] Roman law. 1. An agreement to pay (one's own or another's) existing debt. ( A constitutum was not a novation; the creditor could still sue the original debtor. It differed from a stipulation because it had to be for an existing debt. 2. The fixing of a day for the repayment of money owed.
Constitutum esse eam domum unicuique nostrum debere existimari, ubi quisque sedes et tabulas haberet, suarumque rerum constitutionem fecisset.
It is a settled principle that what ought to be considered the home of each of us is where he has his dwelling, keeps his records, and has established his business.
Hominum causa jus constitutum est
Law was established for the benefit of humankind.
Inter alios res gestas aliis non posse praejudicium facere saepe constitutum est.
It has been often decided that matters transacted between other parties cannot cause prejudice (to those who were not involved).
Saepe constitutum est res inter alios judicatas aliis non praqjudicare
It has often been settled that matters adjudged between others ought not to prejudice those who were not parties.
constitutum debiti
[Latin "debt agreement"] Roman law. A promise to discharge an existing liability that is either one's own (constitutum debiti proprii) or another's (constitutum debiti alieni).
constitutum possessorium
"[Another] form of constructive delivery is that which the commentators on the civil law have termed constitutum possessiorum . . . . Any thing may be effectually delivered by means of an agreement that the possessor of it shall for the future hold it no longer on his own account but on account of someone else .... [I]f I buy goods from a warehouseman, they are delivered to me so soon as he has agreed with me that he will hold them as warehouseman on my account. The position is then exactly the same as if I had first taken actual delivery of them, and then brought them back to the warehouse, and deposited them there for safe custody." John Salmond, Jurisprudence 306 (Glanville L. Williams ed., 10th ed. 1947).
jus moribus constitutum
[Latin] See UNWRITTEN LAW.