Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Diligent
adj. Careful; attentive; persistent in doing something.
adhibere diligentiam
vb. [Latin] Civil law. To use care.
diligent inquiry
A careful and good-faith probing to ascertain the truth of something.
diligentia
n. [Latin] Roman law. Carefulness; diligence. 0 The failure to exercise diligentia might make a person liable if contractually obliged to look after another's interests, or it might result in tort liability. Cf. NEGLIGENTIA. See DILIGENCE.
diligentia exactissima
n. [Latin] Extraordinary diligence that a head of a family habitually exercises in business. - Also termed diligentia exacta; diligentia boni patrisfamilias. See extraordinary diligence under DILIGENCE.
diligentia quam suis rebus
n. [Latin] The care that an ordinary person exercises in managing his or her affairs. See ordinary diligence under DILIGENCE."The texts distinguish two standards of diligence, a higher and a lower. The higher is the diligence which the good father of a family habitually exhibits in his own affairs (diligentia exacta or exactissima - diligentia boni patrishamilias). The lower is
exacta diligentia
[Latin] Roman law. Great care.