Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Culpable
adj. 1. Guilty; blameworthy. 2. Involving the breach of a duty.
culpable accident
An accident due to negligence. A culpable accident, unlike an unavoidable accident, is no defense except in those few cases in which wrongful intent is the exclusive and necessary basis for liability.
culpable intoadcation
See voluntary intoxication under INTOXICATION.
culpable intoxication.
See voluntary intoxication.
culpable neglect
See NEGLECT.
culpable neglect.
Censurable or blameworthy neglect; neglect that is less than gross carelessness but more than the failure to use ordinary care.
culpable negligence
See NEGLIGENCE.
de rien culpable
[Law French] Guilty of nothing; not guilty.
nient culpable
n. [Law French] Hist. A general plea of "not guilty" in a tort or criminal action. "When the prisoner hath thus pleaded not guilty, non culpabilis, or nient culpable; which was formerly used to be abbreviated upon the minutes, thus, 'non (or nient) cul.' the clerk of the assise, or clerk of the arraigns, on behalf of the crown replies, that the prisoner is guilty, and that he is ready to prove him so." 4 William Blackatone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 333 (1769).
termed culpable intoxication
; self-induced intoxication.