Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Ambulatoria est voluntas defuncti usque ad vitae supremum exitum.
The will of a decedent is ambulatory (that is, can be altered) until the last moment of life.
Defunct
adj. Dead; extinct <defunct corporation > .
Haereditas est successio in universum jus quod defunctus habuerat
Inheritance is the succession to every right possessed by the late possessor.
Haereditas nihil aliud est quam successio in universum jus, quod defunctus habuerat.
The right of inheritance is nothing other than the faculty of succeeding to all the rights of the deceased.
Poena ex delicto defuncti haeres teneri non debet
The heir ought not to be bound by a penalty for the crime of the deceased.
Reipublicae interest voluntates defunctorum effectum sortiri
It is in the interest of the state that the wills of the dead should have their (intended) effect.
ad colligendum bona defuncti
[Law Latin "for collecting the goods of the deceased"] Special letters of administration authorizing a person to collect and preserve a decedent's property.
defunct marriage
A marriage in which both parties, by their conduct, indicate their intent to no longer be married.
defunctus
adj. [Latin] Dead, as in defunctus sine prole ("dead without (leaving) issue").
letters ad colligendum bona defuncti
n. [Law Latin] Hist. An authorization from a judicial officer to an approved person to collect and maintain the goods of a person who died intestate. ( These letters were issued only if no representative or creditor existed to exercise this function.