Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.

Fiction

See LEGAL FICTION,

In fictione juris semper aequitas existit.

In a fiction of law there is always equity. 0 A legal fiction is always consistent with equity.

In fictione juris semper subsistit aequitas.

In a legal fiction equity always abides (or prevails).

Les fictions naissent de la loi, et non la loi des fictions

Fictions arise from the law, and not law from fictions.

ex fictione juris

[Latin] By a fiction of law.

fiction of law

See LEGAL FICTION.

fictional action

See collusive action under ACTION.

fictional action.

See collusive action.

legal fiction

An assumption that something is true even though it may be untrue, made esp. in judicial reasoning to alter how a legal rule operates. ( The constructive trust is an example of a legal fiction. - Also termed fction of law; fictio juris. "I employ the expression