Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Corpus
n. [Latin "body"] 1. An abstract collection or body. 2. The property for which a trustee is responsible; the trust principal. - Also termed res; trust estate; trust fund; trust property; trust res. 3. Principal (as of a fund or estate), as opposed to interest or income. Pl. Corpora (kor-pa-ra) corpuses (korpa-saz).
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.
Corpus Juris Civilis
The body of the civil law, compiled and codified under the direction of the Roman emperor Justinian in A.D. 528-534. 0 The collection includes four works - the Institutes, the Digest (or Pandects), the Code, and the Novels. The title Corpus Juris Ciuilis was not original, or even early, but was modeled on the Corpus Juris Canonici and given in the 16th century and later to editions of the texts of the four component parts of the Roman law. See ROMAN LAW (1).
Corpus humanum non recipit aestimationem
The person of a human being can have no price put on it.
Liberum corpus nullam recipit aestimationem
The body of a free person allows no price to be set upon it. Dig. 9.3.7.
Plures cohaeredes sunt quasi unum corpus, propter unitatem juris quod habent
Sever al coheirs are as one body, by reason of the unity of right that they possess.
Plures participes sunt quasi unum corpus in eo quod unum jus habent
Several coheirs (or parceners) are as one body in that they have one right. Co. Litt. 164.
cepi corpus et bail
I have arrested and then released the defendant on a bail bond.
cepi corpus et committitur
I have arrested and committed the defendant (to prison).
cepi corpus et est languidus
I have arrested the defendant and he is sick. ( This notation in a sheriff's return indicated that the defendant was too sick to be moved safely from the place of arrest.
cepi corpus et paratum habeo
I have made an arrest and am ready to produce the defendant.
corpus comitatus
[Latin "the body of a county"] Hist. Places not part of the "high seas" and hence where admiralty jurisdiction did not originally extend.
corpus corporatum
[Latin] Hist. A corporate body; a corporation.
corpus cum causa
[Law Latin "the body with the cause"] Hist. A writ issuing out of Chancery to remove both a per-son and a record from an inferior court in order to review a judgment issued by the inferior court."The first use of the writ to challenge imprisonment was in cases of privilege; an officer of a central court, or a litigant there, could be released from imprisonment in another court by writ of privilege in habeas corpus form. The Court of Chancery at the same time developed a similar procedure for reviewing the cause of imprisonment in an inferior tribunal; this species of writ was called corpus cum causa, and it became a common remedy against the misuse of borough jurisdiction in the fifteenth century." J.H. Baker, An Introduction to English Legal History 168 (3d ed. 1990).
corpus delicti
[Latin "body of the crime"] 1. The fact of a transgression; ACTUS REUS."[T]he definition of 'corpus delicti' often becomes important. (a) Essentially it signifies merely the fact of the specific loss or injury sustained, e.g., death of a victim or burning of a house. (b) To this is added also, by most courts, the criminal agency of some person (i.e., not mere accident). (c) A few courts also include evidence of the accused's identity with the deed; but this is absurd, for it virtually signifies making 'corpus delicti' synonymous with the whole charge. - Many courts treat this rule with a pedantic and unpractical strictness." John H. Wigmore, A Students' Textbook of the Law of Evidence 310 (1935).
corpus delicti rule
Criminal law. The doctrine that prohibits a prosecutor from proving the corpus delicti based solely on a defendant's extrajudicial statements. ( The prosecution must establish the corpus delicti with corroborating evidence to secure a conviction.
corpus juris
[Latin "body of law"] The law as the sum or collection of laws <Corpus Juris Secundum>. -Abbr. C.J.
corpus juris Angliae
The entire body of English law, comprising the common law, statutory law, equity, and special law in its various forms.
corpus possessionis
[Latin] Roman law. A thing possessed by someone. See animus possidendi under ANIMUS.
corpus pro corpore
[Latin] Hist. Body for body. ( This phrase commonly expressed the liability of a surety in a civil action (a mainpernor). See MAINPRISE.
defendere se per corpus suum
ub. [Law Latin "to defend himself by his own body"] Hist. To agree to a trial by judicial combat; to agree to a duel.
habeas corpus
[Law Latin "that you have the body"] A writ employed to bring a person before a court, most frequently to ensure that the party's imprisonment or detention is not illegal (habeas corpus ad subjiciendum). ( In addition to being used to test the legality of an arrest or commitment, the writ may be used to obtain review of (1) the regularity of extradition process, (2) the right to or amount of bail, or (3) the jurisdiction of a court that has imposed a criminal sentence. -Abbr. H.C. - Sometimes shortened to habeas. - Also termed writ of habeas corpus; Great Writ.
habeas corpus ad deliberandum et recipiendum
[Law Latin "that you have the body to consider and receive"] Hist. A writ used to remove a person for trial from one county to the county where the person allegedly committed the offense. Cf. EXTRADITION.
habeas corpus ad faciendum et recipiendum
[Law Latin "that you have the body to do and receive"] Hist. A writ used in civil cases to remove the case, and also the body of the defendant, from an inferior court to a superior court. - Also termed habeas corpus cum causa. See CERTIORARI.
habeas corpus ad prosequendum
[Law Latin "that you have the body to prosecute"] Hist. A writ used in criminal cases to bring before a court a prisoner to be tried on charges other than those for which the prisoner is currently being confined.
habeas corpus ad respondendum
[Law Latin "that you have the body to respond"] Hist. A writ used in civil cases to remove a person from one court's custody into that of another court, in which the person may then be sued.
habeas corpus ad satisfaciendum
[Law Latin "that you have the body to make amends"] In England, a writ used to bring a prisoner against whom a judgment has been entered to some superior court so that the plaintiff can proceed to execute that judgment.
habeas corpus ad subjiciendum
[Law Latin "that you have the body to submit to"] A writ directed to someone detaining another person and commanding that the detainee be brought to court. - Usu. shortened to habeas corpus.
habeas corpus ad testi ficandum
[Law Latin "that you have the body to testify"] Hist. A writ used in civil and criminal cases to bring a prisoner to court to testify.
habeas corpus cum causa
See habeas corpus ad faciendum et recipiendum. Habeas Corpus Act. 1. One of the four great charters of English liberty (31 Car. 2, 1679), securing to English subjects speedy relief from all unlawful imprisonments. 0 The other three great charters are Magna Carta, the Petition of Right (3 Car. 1, 1628), and the Bill of Rights (1 Wm. & M. 1689). The Habeas Corpus Act does not apply in Scotland. 2. A statute deriving ultimately from the English statute and enacted in the United States as a constitutional guarantee of personal liberty.
habeas corpus cum causa.
See habeas corpus ad faciendum et recipiendum under HABEAS CORPUS.
infra corpus comitatus
adu. & adj. [Law Latin] Hist. Within the body of a county. ( In English law, this phrase referred to a body of water that was completely enclosed by land, and therefore exempt from admiralty jurisdiction.
writ of habeas corpus
See HABEAS CORPUS.