Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Caveat emptor qui ignorare non debuit quod jus alienum emit
Let the buyer beware; for he ought not act in ignorance when he buys what another has right to.
Emit
ub. 1. To give off or discharge into the air <emit light>. 2. To issue with authority <emit a new series of currency>. - emission, n.
Emptor emit quam minimo potest; venditor vendit quam maximo potest
The buyer buys for as little as possible; the vendor sells for as much as possible.
Ligeantia naturalis nullis claustris coercetur, nullis metis refraenatur, nullis finibus premitur
Natural allegiance is restrained by no barriers, curbed by no bounds, compressed by no limits.
Remit
vb. 1. To pardon or forgive <the wife could not remit her husband's infidelity>. 2. To abate or slacken; to mitigate <the receipt of money damages remitted the embarrassment of being fired>. 3. To refer (a matter for decision) to some authority, esp. to send back (a case) to a lower court <the appellate court remitted the case to the trial court for further factual determinations. See REMAND. 4. To send or put back to a previous condition or position <a landlord's breach of a lease does not justify the tenant's refusal to pay rent; instead, the tenant is remitted to the right to recover damages>. 5. To transmit (as money) <upon receiving the demand letter, she promptly remitted the amount due>. - remissible (for senses 1-4), adj. - remittable (for sense 5), adj.
Remittance
1. A sum of money sent to another as payment for goods or services. 2. An instrument (such as a check) used for sending money. 3. The action or process of sending money to another person or place.
Remitting bank
a payor or intermediary bank that pays or transfers an item.
collatione heremitagii
[Law Latin "collation of hermitage"] Hist. A writ by which the Crown conferred the keeping of a hermitage on aclerk.
remittance advice
notice that a sum of money has been sent (esp. by mail) for goods or services. see remittance.
remittance advice.
See ADVICE.
remittee.
One to whom payment is sent.
remitter.
1. The principle by which a person having two titles to an estate, and entering on it by the later or more defective title, is deemed to hold the estate by the earlier or more valid title. 2. The act of sending back a case to a lower court. 3. One who sends payment to someone else. - Also spelled (in sense 3) remittor. remitting bank. See BANK.
remittit damna
[Latin] Hist. An entry on the record by which a plaintiff declares that he or she remits part of the damages that have been awarded.
remittitur
1. The process by which a court reduces or proposes to reduce the damages awarded in a jury verdict. 2. A court's order reducing an award of damages <the defendant sought a remittitur of the $100 million judgment>. Cf. ADDITUR.
remittitur of record.
The action of sending the transcript of a case back from an appellate court to a trial court; the notice for doing so. remittor. See REMITTER (3),