Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Confessus in judicio pro judicato habetur et quodammodo sua sententia damnatur
A person who has confessed his guilt when arraigned is considered to have been tried and is, as it were, condemned by his own sentence.
Damna
See AD DAMNUM.
Damnatus
[fr. Latin damnare "to condemn"] 1. Roman law. A person condemned, esp. in a capital case. 2. Hist. Something prohibited by law; something that is unlawful, as in damnatus coitus ("unlawful sexual connection").
Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur.
The judge is condemned when the guilty party is acquitted.
Multa non vetat lex quae tamen tacite damnavit
The law does not forbid many things that yet it has silently condemned.
Qui ex damnato coitu nascuntur, inter liberos non computentur
They who are born of an illicit union should not be counted among children.
damna clericorum
n. See DAMAGE-CLEER.
levari facias damna de disseisitoribus
n. [Law Latin "that you cause to be levied the rest of the debt"] Hist. A writ directing the sheriff to levy property to pay damages owed to one wrongfully dispossessed of a freehold estate. See DISSEISIN.
remittit damna
[Latin] Hist. An entry on the record by which a plaintiff declares that he or she remits part of the damages that have been awarded.