Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Assignment of error
a specification of the trial court's alleged errors on which the appellant relies in seeking an appellate court's reversal, vacation, or modification of an adverse judgment. Pl.
Assignments of error
see error. Cf. Writ of error.
Bail in error
security given by a defendant who intends to bring a writ of error on r judgment and desires a stay of execution in t he meantime. See appeal bumd & supersedes bond under bond (2).
Bruton error
The violation of a criminal defendant's constitutional right of confrontation by admitting into evidence a nontestifying codefendant's confession that implicates a defendant who claims innocence. Bruton u. United States, 391 U.S. 123, 88 S.Ct. 1620 (1968).
Communis error facit jus
A common error (one often repeated) makes law.
Communis error non facit jus
A common error does not make law.
Consensus tollit errorem. Consent removes an error
A person cannot object to something he has consented to.
Court for the Correction of Errors
A court having jurisdiction to review a lower court. ( The name was formerly used in New York and South Carolina.
Court of Errors and Appeals
Hist. Formerly, the court of last resort in New Jersey and New York. - Also termed High Court of Errors and Appeals.
Cujus per errorem dati repetitio est, ejus consulto dati donatio est
A thing given by mistake can be recovered; if given purposely, it is a gift. Dig. 50.17.53.
De fide et officio judicis non recipitur quaestio, sed de scientia sive sit error juris sive facti
The good faith and honesty of purpose of a judge cannot be questioned, but his knowledge may be impugned if there is an error either of law or of fact.
Error
n. 1. A psychological state that does not conform to objective reality; a belief that what is false is true or that what is true is false; MISTAKE.
Error fucatus nuda veritate in multis est probabilior; et saepenumero rationibus vincit veritatem error
Error artfully colored is in many instances more probable than naked truth; and frequently error conquers truth by argumentation.
Error juris nocet
An error of law injures.
Error nominis nunquam nocet, si de identitate rei constat
Mistake in the name never injures if the identity of the thing is certain.
Error qui non resistitur approbatur
An error that is not resisted is approved.
Error scribentis nocere non debet
The error of a scribe (or copyist) ought not to injure.
Errores ad sua principia referre est refellere
To refer errors to their origin is to refute them.
Errores scribentis nocere non debent
The mistakes of the scribe (or copyist) ought to do no harm.
Falconer error
A trial court's failure to instruct the jury that a guilty finding on a manslaughter charge requires acquittal on a murder charge. Falconer u. Lane, 905 F.2d 1129 (7th Cir. 1990).
High Court of Errors and Appeals.
See COURT OF ERRORS AND APPEALS.
In generalibus versatur error.
Error dwells in general expressions.
Judicia in curia regis non adnihilentur, sed stent in robore suo quousque per errorem aut attinctam adnullentur
Let judgments in the king's court not be invalidated but remain in force until annulled by error or attaint. 2 Inst. 360.
Maximus erroris populus magister
The people are the greatest master of error.
Multitudo errantium non parit errori patrocinium
The multitude of those who err does not produce indulgence for error.
Negatio conclusionis est error in lege
The denial of a conclusion is error in law.
Nihil facit error nominis cum de corpore constat
An error in the name is nothing when there is certainty as to the person.
Nil facit error nominis cum de corpore vel persona constat
An error in the name is immaterial when the body or person is certain.
Nul sans damage avera error ou attaint
No one shall have error or attaint unless there has been damage.
Omnis consensus tollit errorem
Every consent removes an error. 2 Co. Inst. 123.
Praesentia corporis tollit errorem nominis, et veritas nominis tollit errorem demonstrationis
The presence of the body cancels an error in the name; the truth of the name cancels an error in the description.
Supreme Court of Errors
Hist. The court of last resort in Connecticut. ( The court is now called the Supreme Court.
Terrorism
n. The use or threat of violence to intimidate or cause panic, esp. as a means of affecting political conduct. - terrorist, adj. & n.
Veritas demonstrationis tollit errorem nominis
The truth of the description removes the error of the name.
Veritas nominis tollit errorem demonstrationis
The truth of the name takes away the error of the description.
adjournment day in error
see day
clear error
A trial judge's decision or action that appears to a reviewing court to have been unquestionably erroneous. ( Even though a clear error occurred, it may not warrant reversal.
clerical error
An error resulting from a minor mistake or inadvertence, esp. in writing or copying something on the record, and not from judicial reasoning or determination.Among the boundless examples of clerical errors are omitting an appendix from a document; typing an incorrect number; mistranscribing a word; and failing to log a call. A court can correct a clerical error at any time, even after judgment has been entered. -Also termed scrivener's error; vitium clerici. See VITIUM SCRTPTORIS.
common error
Copyright. A mistake found both in a copyrighted work and in an alleged infringing work, the mistake being persuasive evidence of unauthorized copying.
confessing error
A plea admitting to an assignment of error. See ASSIGNMENT OF ERROR.
court of error
1. Hist. Formerly, the Court of Exchequer Chamber and the House of Lords. Appeals from common-law courts lay to the Court of Exchequer Chamber, and then to the House of Lords until 1873, when the Judica- ture Act gave jurisdiction of superior-court appeals to the Court of Appeal. Cf. COURT OF EXCHEQUER CHAMBER. 2. Generally, a court having jurisdiction to review a lower court's rulings.
cross-error
An error brought by the party responding to a writ of error. error apparent of record. See plain error.
defendant in error
Archaic. In a case on appeal, the prevailing party in the court below. See APPELLEE; RESPONDENT (1).
doctrine of scrivener's error
A rule permitting a typographical error in a document to be reformed by parol evidence, if the evidence is precise, clear, and convincing. See clerical error under ERROR (2).
error de persona
[Latin "error of the person"] A mistake about a person's identity. Cf. ERROR NOMINIS.
error in corpore
A mistake involving the identity of a particular object, as when a party buys a horse believing it to be the one that the party had already examined and ridden, when in fact it is a different horse.
error in fact
See mistake of fact under MISTAKE.
error in law
See mistake of law under MISTAKE.
error in negotio
A mistake about the type of contract that the parties actually wanted to enter.
error in qualitate
See ERROR (1).