Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Acta exteriora indicant interiora secreta

Outward acts indicate the thoughts hidden within.

Acuudicative-claims arbitration

arbitration designed to resolve matters usu. Handled by courts (such as a tort claim), in contrast to arbitration of labor issues, international trade, and other fields traditionally associated with arbitration.

Adjudicatio

[Latin] Roman & civil law. A part of a formula (i.e., the praetor's statement of an issue for a judex) directing the judex to apportion property in a divisory action such as an actio de communi diuidundo. See FORMULA (1).

Adjudicator

A person whose job is to render binding decisions; one who makes judicial pronouncements.

Adjudicatory

See ADJUDICATIVE

Bonus judex secundum aequum et bonum judicat, et aequitatem stricto juri praefert

A good judge decides according to fairness and the good and prefers equity to strict law.

Cessa regnare, si non vis judicare

Cease to reign if you wish not to adjudicate.

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.

Consuetudo, licet sit magnae auctoritatis, nunquam tamen praejudicat manifestae veritati.

A custom, even if it is of great authority, is never prejudicial to plain truth.

Copulatio verborum indicat acceptationem in eodem sensu

Coupling words together shows that they ought to be understood in the same sense.

Dedication

n Property. The donation of land or creation of an easement for public use. - dedicate, vb. - dedicatory, adj.

Dica

n. [Law Latin] An account tally. See TALLY (1).

Dijudication

Archaic. A judicial determination.

Doctor of Juridical Science

A graduate law degree, beyond the J.D. and the LL.M. - Abbr. S.J.D.; J.S.D. - Also termed Doctor of Judicial Science; Doctor of the Science of Jurisprudence; Doctor of the Science of Law.

Examples include deprivation of food or medication, beatings, oral assaults, and isolation. - Also termed elder abuse. carnal abuse. See sexual abuse.

Forisjudicatio

See FOREJUDGER

Forisjudicatus

See FOREJUDGER.

Ignorantia juris sui non praejudicat juri.

Ignorance of one's right does not prejudice the right.

Impius et crudelis judicandus est qui liber. tati non favet

A person is to be judged impi. ous and cruel who does not favor liberty.

Incivile est, nisi tota lege prospecta, una aliqua particula ejus proposita, judicare vel respondere

It is improper, unless the whole law has been examined, to give judgment or advice upon any single clause of it.

Incivile est, nisi tota sententia inspecta, de aliqua parte judicare

It is improper to give an opinion on any part of a passage without examining the whole.

Indicaait

[Law Latin "he has indicated"] Hist. A writ of prohibition by which a church patron removes to a common-law court an ecclesiastical-court action between two clerics who dispute each other's right to a benefice. ( The writ was long available - nominally up to the 20th century - under the statute De Conjunctim Feoffatis (1306). Actions concerning clerics' rights to a benefice were usu. tried in ecclesiastical courts, but they could be removed to a common-law court if the action involved a church patron in some way, as when one cleric was appointed by a certain patron and the other cleric was appointed by another patron. Cf. ADVOWSON.

Injustum est, nisi tota lege inspecta, de una aliqua ejus particula proposita judicare vel respondere

It is unjust to give judgment or opinion concerning any particular clause of a law without having examined the whole law.

Interest reipublicae res judicatas non rescindi.

It is in the interest of the state that judgments already given not be rescinded.

Judex debet judicare secundum allegata etprobata

The judge ought to give judgment according to the allegations and the proofs.

Judicandum est legibus non exemplis

Judgment must be given by the laws, not by examples.

Judicature Acts

A series of statutes that reorganized the superior courts of England in 1875. ( The Judicature Acts were superseded by the Supreme Court Act of 1981.judices (joo-di-seez). [Latin] pl. JUDEX. judicia (joo-dish-ee-a). [Latin] pl. JUDICIUM.

Judicis est judicare secundum allegata et probata

It is the proper role of a judge to decide according to the allegations and proofs.

Juridical

adj. 1. Of or relating to judicial proceedings or to the administration of justice. 2. Of or relating to law; legal. - Also termed juridic. Cf. NONJURIDICAL.

Lex Angliae nunquam matris sed semper patris conditionem imitari partum judicat

The law of England rules that the offspring always follows the condition of the father, never that of the mother.

Lex judicat de rebus necessario faciendis quasi re ipsa factis

The law judges of things that must necessarily be done as if actually done.

Libertinum ingratum leges civiles in pristinam servitutem redignunt; sed leges Angliae semel manumissum semper liberum judicant

The civil laws reduce an ungrateful freedman to his original slavery; but the laws of England regard a person once manumitted as ever after free.

Medicaid

A government program that provides medical aid to those who cannot afford private medical services. a Medicaid is jointly funded by the federal and state governments.

Medicaid-qualifying trust

A trust that is deemed to have been created in an effort to reduce someone's assets so that the person may qualify for Medicaid, and that will be included as an asset for purposes of determining the person's eligibility. ( Someone who wants to apply and qualify for Medicaid, but who has too many assets to qualify, will sometimes set up a trust - or have a spouse or custodian set up a trust - using the applicant's own assets, under which the applicant may be the beneficiary of all or part of the payments from the trust, which are distributed by a trustee with discretion to make trust payments to the applicant. Such a trust may be presumed to have been established for the purpose of attempting to qualify for Medicaid, and may be counted as an asset of the applicant, resulting in a denial of benefits.

Medicals

See medical expense (2) under EXPENSE.

Medicare

A federal program - established under the Social Security Act - that provides health insurance for the elderly and the disabled.

Modica circumstantia facti jus mutat

A small circumstance attending an act alters the right.

Monetandi jus comprehenditur in regalibus quae nunquam a regio sceptro abdicantur

The right of coining is included among those rights of royalty that are never relinquished by the kingly scepter.

Non exemplis sed legibus judicandum est

Not by examples but by the laws must judgment be made.

Nonjuridical

adj. 1. Not of or relating to judicial proceedings or to the administration of justice <the dispute was nonjuridical>. 2. Not of or relating to the law; not legal <a natural person is a nonjuridical entity. CE JURIDICAL.

Notitia dicitur a noscendo; et notitia non debet claudicare

Notice is named from knowledge; and notice ought not to limp (that is, be imperfect).

Quaecunque intra rationem legis inveniuntur, intra legem ipsam esse judicantur

Whatever appears within the reason of the law is considered within the law itself.

Res inter alios judicatae nullum aliis praejudicium faciunt

Matters adjudged in the lawsuits of others do not prejudice those who were not parties to them.

Res judicata facit ex albo nigrum, ex nigro album, ex curvo rectum, ex recto curvum

A matter adjudged makes white black; black white; the crooked straight; the straight crooked.

Res judicata pro veritate accipitur

A matter adjudged is taken for truth.

Respiciendum est judicanti nequid aut durius aut remissius constituatur quam causes deposcit; nec enim aut severitatis aut clementiae gloria affectanda est

The person judging must see to it that nothing should be either more severely or more leniently construed than the cause itself demands; neither for severity nor clemency is glory to be sought after.

Saepe constitutum est res inter alios judicatas aliis non praqjudicare

It has often been settled that matters adjudged between others ought not to prejudice those who were not parties.

Sententia contra matrimonium nunquam transit in rem judicatam

A sentence against marriage never becomes a final judgment (i.e., res judicata).

Sententia facit jus, et res judicata pro veritate accipitur

The judgment creates the right, and what is adjudicated is taken for truth.

Si judicas, cognosce

If you judge, understand.