Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Custos statum haeredis in custodia existentis meliorem, non deteriorem, facere potest
A guardian can make the estate of an heir living under his guardianship better, not worse
Deface
ub. 1. To mar or destroy (a written instrument, signature, or inscription) by obliteration, erasure, or superinscription. 2. To detract from the value of (a coin) by punching, clipping, cutting, or shaving. 3. To mar or injure (a building, monument, or other structure). - defacement, n.
Defacere
See DIFFACERE.
Deus solus haeredem facere potest, non homo
God alone, and not man, can make an heir.
Distinguenda sunt tempora; aliud est facere, aliud perficere
Times must be distinguished; it is one thing to do a thing, another to complete it.
Ecclesia fungitur vice minoris; meliorem conditionem suam facere potest, deteriorem nequaquam
The church enjoys the privilege of a minor; it can make its own condition better but not worse.
Face
n, 1. The surface of anything, esp. the front, upper, or outer part <the face of a clock>. 2. By extension, the apparent or explicit part of a writing or record <the fraud must appear on the face of the record>. 3. The inscribed side of a document, instrument, or judgment <although the contract appeared valid on its face, the buyer did not have the legal capacity to enter into it>.
Idem est facere et nolle prohibere cum possis
It is the same thing to commit an act and to refuse to prohibit it when you can.
In re communi neminem dominorum jure facere quicquam, invito altero, posse
In common property no one of the coproprietors can do (or make) anything against the will of the other. Dig. 10.3.28.
Inter alios res gestas aliis non posse praejudicium facere saepe constitutum est.
It has been often decided that matters transacted between other parties cannot cause prejudice (to those who were not involved).
Janus-faced
adj. Having two contrasting or contradictory aspects; two-faced < a Janus-faced plea>.
Libertas est naturalis facultas ejus quod cuique facere libet, nisi quod de jure aut vi prohibetur
Liberty is the natural power of doing whatever one pleases, except what is prevented by law or force.
Lucrum facere ex pupilli tutela tutor non debet
A guardian ought not to make money out of the guardianship of his ward.
Meliorem conditionem suam facere potest minor, deteriorem nequaquam
A minor can improve or make his condition better, but in no way worse.
Nemo damnum facit, nisi qui id fecit quod facere jus non habet
No one does damage except the person who did what he has no right to do.
Nemo ex suo delicto meliorem suam conditionem facere potest
No one can improve his condition by his own wrong.
Nemo potest facere per alium quod per se non potest
No one can do through another what he cannot do by himself.
Nemo potest facere per obliquum quod non potest facere per directum
No one can do indirectly what he cannot do directly.
Non est justum aliquem antenatum post mortem facere bastardum qui toto tempore vitae suae pro legitimo habebatur
It is not just to make an elderborn a bastard after his death, who during his lifetime was accounted legitimate.
Non potest rex gratiam facere cum injuria et damno aliorum
The king cannot confer a favor that occasions injury and loss to others.
Non videtur vim facere qui jure suo utitur et ordinaria actione experitur
A person is not judged to use force who exercises his own right and proceeds by ordinary action.
Nullus jus alienum forisfacere potest
No one can forfeit another's right.
Nullus videtur dolo facere qui suo jure utitur
No one is to be regarded as acting by fraud who exercises his legal right.
Qui non obstat quod obstare potest, facere videtur
A person who does not prevent what he can prevent is considered to act.
Qui per alium facit per seipsum facere videtur
A person who does anything through another is considered as doing it himself.
Sic enim debere quem meliorem agrum suum facere, ne vicini deteriorem faciat
Everyone ought so to improve his land as not to injure his neighbor's.
Summa caritas est facere justitiam singulis et omni tempore quando necesse fuerit
The greatest charity is to do justice to each individual and at every time when it is necessary.
Surface
1. The top layer of something, esp. of land. 2. Mining law. An entire portion of land, including mineral deposits, except those specifically reserved. ( The meaning of the term varies, esp. when used in legal instruments, depending on the language used, the intention of the parties, the business involved, and the nature and circumstances of the transaction. 3. Mining law. The part of the geologic section lying over the minerals in question.
Surface Transportation Board
See INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION.
Universitas vel corporatio non dicitur aliquid facere nisi id sit collegialiter deliberatum, etiamsi major pars id faciat
A university or corporation is not said to take any action unless the action was resolved by it as a body, even if a greater part of the body should act.
corium forisfacere
[Law Latin "to forfeit skin"] Hist. To whip (a person, esp. a servant) as punishment. - Also termed corium perdere.
diffacere
ub. [fr. Old French deffacer] Hist. To deface; to mutilate. - Also termed disfacere; defacere.
diffused surface water
Water, such as rainfall runoff, that collects and flows on the ground but does not form a watercourse. ( Surface water is usu. subject to different regulations from water flowing in a watercourse. - Often shortened to surface water. See COMMON-ENEMY DOCTRINE; WATERCOURSE.
face amount
1. PAR VALUE. 2. Insurance. The amount payable under an insurance policy. -Also termed face value; face amount insured by the policy; face of policy. face-amount certificate See CERTIFICATE.
face amount insured by the policy
See FACE AMOUNT.
face of policy
See FACE AMOUNT.
face rate
See nominal rate under INTERES7 RATE.
face value
See FACE AMOUNT.
face-amount certificate of installment type
See face-amount certificate (1) under CERTIFICATE.
fair on its face
having the appearance of being regular or legal and not capable of being shown to be defective without extraneous evidence.
finem facere
[Latin] Hist. 1. To make a composition or compromise; to relinquish a claim in exchange for consideration. "In the thirteenth century the king's justices wield a wide and a 'common law' power of ordering that an offender be kept in custody. They have an equally wide power of discharging him upon his 'making fine with the king.' We must observe the language of the time. In strictness they have no power to 'impose a fine.' No tribunal of this period, unless we are mistaken, is ever said to impose a fine. To order the offender to pay so much money to the king - this the judge may not do. If he did it, he would be breaking or evading the Great Charter, for an amercement should be affeered, not by royal justices, but by neighbours of the wrong-doer. What the judges can do is this: - they can pronounce a sentence of imprisonment and then allow the culprit to 'make fine,' that is to make an end (finem facere) of the matter by paying or finding security for a certain sum of money. In theory the fine is a bilateral transaction, a bargain; it is not 'imposed,' it is 'made."' 2 Frederick Pollock & Frederic W. Maitland, The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward 1 517 (2d ed. 1899). 2. To make a settlement of a penalty. ( Magna Carta (ch. 55) specifically limited "[a]ll fines which were made with us unjustly and contrary to the law of the land ...." ([o]mnes fines qui injuste et contra legem terrae facti sunt nobiscum).
forisfacere
vb. [fr. Latin foras "without" + facere "to make"] Hist. 1. To forfeit (an estate or other property). ( Literally, this means to make the property foreign to oneself. 2. To violate the law; to do a thing against or without the law.
fully paid face-amount certificate.
See faceamount certificate under CERTIFICATE.
idoneum se facere; idoneare se
[Law Latin "to make oneself sufficient; to clear oneself '] Hist. To purge oneself, by oath, of a crime that one is accused of committing.
legem facere
ub. [Law Latin] Hist. To make an oath; to wage law.
litem suam facere
ub. [Latin "to make a suit one's own"] Roman law. (Of a judex) to show partiality to one side in a dispute or otherwise neglect official duties.
subsurface right
1 A landowner's right to the minerals and water below the property. 2. A like right, held by another through grant by, or purchase from, a landowner. See MINERAL RIGHT. CC SURFACE RIGHT.
surface right
A landowner's right to the land's surface and to all substances below the surface that are not defined as minerals. ( The surface right is subject to the mineral owner's right to use the surface. - Also termed surface interest. Cf. MINERAL RIGHT; SUBSURFACE RIGHT.
surface water
See diffused surface water under WATER.
undercurrent of surface stream
Water that moves slowly through the bed of a stream or lands under or immediately adjacent to the stream. ( This water is considered part of the surface stream. - Also termed underflow of surface stream.