Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Consult
ub. ( consulting, consultative, adj .
Consultation
n. 1. The act of asking the advice tr opinion of someone (such as a lawyer). 2. A neeting in which parties consult or confer. 3. Int'l law. The interactive methods by which
Cujus per errorem dati repetitio est, ejus consulto dati donatio est
A thing given by mistake can be recovered; if given purposely, it is a gift. Dig. 50.17.53.
Fatuus, apud jurisconsultos nostros, accipitur pro non compos mentis; et fatuus dicitur, qui omnino desipit
"Fatuous," among our jurisconsults, is applied to a man not of sound mind; one is also called "fatuous" who is altogether foolish.
Jurisconsult
One who is learned in the law, esp. in civil or international law; JURIST.
Neque leges neque senatus consulta ita scribi possunt ut omnes casus qui quandoque inciderint comprehendantur; sed sufficit ea quae plerumque accidunt contineri
Neither laws nor acts of senate can be so written as to include all cases that have happened at any time; it is sufficient that those things that usually occur are encompassed. Dig. 1.3.10. pr.
Quisquis est qui velit jurisconsultus haberi, continuet studium, velit a quocunque doceri
Whoever there is who wishes to be regarded as a jurisconsult (legal expert) should prolong his study and be willing to be taught by everyone.
Quod inconsulto fecimus, consultius revoce- mus
What we have done without due consideration we should revoke with better consideration.
Senatus consulto
[Latin] Roman law. By the decree of the Sen. ate.
consulting expert
An expert who, though retained by a party is not expected to be called as a witness at trial. & A consulting expert's opinions are generally exempt from the scope of discovery. - Also termed nontestifying expert. Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(b)(4)(B).
ex consulto
[Latin] With consultation or deliberation.
exceptio senatusconsulti Macedoniani
A defense to an action for the recovery of money loaned, on the ground that the loan was made to a minor or a person under another person's paternal power. ( This defense is so named from the decree of the senate that forbade the recovery of such loans.
exceptio senatusconsulti Velleiani
A defense to an action on a contract of suretyship, on the ground that the surety was a woman and thus incapable of becoming bound for another. ( This defense is so named from the decree of the senate forbidding such sureties.
libellus consultatorius
n. [Latin] Roman law. A petition to the emperor from a judge or official asking for guidance.
non procedendo ad assisam rege inconsulto
[Latin] Hist. A writ to put a stop to the trial of a case (pertaining to one who is in the king's service, etc.) when the king has not been consulted.
oratio consultoria
See LIBELLUS CONSULTORIA.
rege inconsulto
[Latin] Hist. A writ issued by a sovereign directing one or more judges not to proceed in a case that might prejudice the Crown until advised to do so.
senatus consulta
[Latin] Roman law. Advice from the Roman Senate, which had no legal weight (though it was usu. followed) until the end of the second century A.D., when it became the official expression of the imperial will. "Senatus consulta. - In the regal and republican periods the Senate enjoyed no legislative power. It was an advisory body, nominated by the King, and at first purely patrician. Later it . . . included patricians and plebeians ... its chief duty still being to tender advice to the magistrates . . . . The theory still was, till the time of Hadrian, that senatus consults were directions to the magistrates, who were now in fact, if not in name, bound to give effect to them, till by a process of gradual usurpation senatus consulta came to be direct legislation." R.W. Leage, Roman Private Law 12-13 (C.H. Ziegler ed., 2d ed. 1930).
senatus consultum
[Latin] Roman law. A decree of the Roman Senate. - Also termed senatus consult.
senatus consultum Macedonianum
n. [Latin "Macedo's Decree"] Roman law. A senate decree, first given under Claudius and renewed by Vespasian, to protect children from making unconscionable loans with creditors in expectation of their father's death, by making actions to recover such loans unlawful. - Also termed Macedonian Decree.
senatus consultum Velleianum
[Latin "Velleian Decree"] Roman law. A senate decree, probably of A.D. 46, to protect women from making unconscionable guarantees, suretyship undertakings, or debt assumptions for their husbands and for others generally, by making actions to enforce such undertakings unlawful.
senatus consultum ultimae necessitates
[Latin] Roman law. A decree of the senate of the last necessity. ( This decree usu. preceded the nomination of a leader with absolute power in a time of emergency. - Also termed senatus consultum ultimum.