Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.

Aequitas est correctio legis generaliter latae qua parte deficit

Equity is the correction of some part of the law where by reason of its generality it is defective.

Deficit

1. A deficiency or disadvantage; a deficiency in the amount or quality of something.

Idem est non probari et non esse; non deficit jus sed probation

It is the same thing not to be proved and not to exist; the law is not deficient but the proof.

Lex non deficit in justitia exhibenda

The law does not fail in showing justice.

Nunquam decurritur ad extraordinarium sed ubi deficit ordinarium

One never resorts to the extraordinary but when the ordinary fails.

Regula pro lege, si deficit lex

If the law is inadequate, the maxim serves in its place.

casual deficit

An unforeseen shortfall of funds.

deficit spending

Expenditures in excess of income, usu. from borrowed funds rather than actual revenues or surplus.

trade deficit

In economics, the excess of merchandise imports over merchandise exports during a specific period. - Also termed trade gap. Cf. trade surplus under SURPLUS. 2. An excess of expenditures or liabilities over revenues or assets.