Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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Benedicta est expositio quando res redimitur a destructione
Blessed is the exposition when a thing is saved from destruction.
Edict
n. A formal decree, demand, or proclamation issued by the sovereign of a country. ( An edict has legal force equivalent to that of a statute. - edictal (ee-dik-tal), adj.
Edicts of Justinian
Roman law. The 13 constitutions or laws of Justinian, appended to the Greek collection of the Novels. 0 The Edicts were confined to police matters in the provinces of the Roman Empire.
Edictum Theodoris
A col lection of Roman laws applicable to both mans and Goths, promulgated by Theodo king of the Ostrogoths, at Rome about 500, or perhaps in the time of Theodoric III OF the Visigoths in Gaul about A.D. 460.
Maledicta expositio quae corrumpit textum
It is a cursed construction that corrupts the text.
Malediction
Hist. A curse connected with the donation of property to a church and applicable against anyone attempting to violate the church's rights.
Praedictus
[Law Latin] Hist. Aforesaid. 0 In pleading, praedictus usu. referred to a defendant, a town, or lands, idem to a plaintiff, and praefatus to a person other than a party. Cf PRAEFATUS.
Veredictum quasi dictum veritatis; ut judicium quasi juris dictum
A verdict is, as it were, the saying of the truth, in the same manner that a judgment is the saying of the law (or right).
aedilitium edictum
n. [latin] roman law. an edict giving remedies for fraudulent sales; the aedilitian edict. ( this edict was enforced by the aediles curules, who were municipal officers with police duties and jurisdiction over markets.
edictal interdict
An interdict that declared the praetor's intention to give a remedy in certain cases, usu. in a way that preserves or restores possession.
edictum
n. [Latin] Roman law. An edict or mandate; an ordinance or law enacted by the emperor without the senate, belonging to the class of constitutiones principis. ( An edict was a constitution of the emperor acting on his own initiative, differing from a rescript in not being returned in the way of answer; from a decree in not being given in judgment; and from both in not being founded upon solicitation.
edictum annuum
The annual edict or system of rules promulgated by a Roman praetor immediately upon assuming office, setting forth the principles by which the praetor would be guided in determining cases and administering justice while in office.
edictum perpetuum
The permanent part of the urban praetor's edict, edited in its final form by Julian in A.D. 131.
edictum prouinciale
An edict or system of rules for the administration of justice, similar to the edict of the praetor, set forth by the proconsuls and pro-praetors in the pro-praetors.
edictum tralatitium
praetor's edict that retained all or a princi part of the predecessor's edict, with only si additions as appeared necessary to adapt it to changing social conditions or juristic ideas,
judgment non obstante veredicto
See judgment notwithstanding the verdict under JUDGMENT.
lex Cornelia de aedictis
n. [Latin] Roman law. The law forbidding a praetor from departing, during his term of office, from the edict he had promulgated at the term's commencement.
non obstante veredicto
[Latin] Notwithstanding the verdict. - Often shortened to non obstante. - Abbr. n.o.v.; NOV. See judgment notwithstanding the verdict under JUDGMENT.
perpetual edict
See EDICT.
perpetual edict. Roman law
The praetor's edict republished into legislation and intended to exist in perpetuity or until abrogated by a later enactment. 0 This term originally had the narrower sense of the praetors' general edicts as opposed to edicts issued in specific cases.
praetorian edict
See EDICT.
prediction theory
See BAD-MAN THEORY; PREDICTIVE THEORY OF LAW.
predictive theory of law
The view that the law is nothing more than a set of predictions about what the courts will decide in given circumstances. ( This theory is embodied in Holmes's famous pronouncement, "The prophecies of what the courts will do in fact, and nothing more pretentious, are what I mean by the law." Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., The Path of the Law, 10 Harv. L. Rev. 457, 460-61 (1897). - Also termed prediction theory. Cf. BAD-MAN THEORY.
veredicto.
See NON OBSTANTE VEREDICTO.
veredictum
, n. Hist. A verdict; a declaration of the truth of a matter in issue, submitted to a jury for trial.