Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Agentes et consentientes pari poena plectentur
Acting and consenting parties will be liable to the same punishment.
Consentientes et agentes pari poena plectentur
Those consenting and those perpetrating will receive the same punishment.
Gentes
[Latin] Roman law. The peoples or nations of the world.
Non erit alia lex Romae, alia Athaenis; alia nunc, alia posthac; sed et omnes gentes, et omni tempore, una lex, et sempiterna, et immortalis continebit
There will not be one law at Rome, another at Athens; one law now, another hereafter; but one eternal and immortal law shall bind together all nations throughout all time.
contra omnes gentes
[Latin] Hist. Against all people. ( These were the traditional words of warranty in a deed.
gentes
See dUS GENTIUM."A wider group still is the gens, of great importance in early law though its importance was gone in classical times. This consisted of all who bore the same nomen, the gentile name." W.W. Buckland, A Manual of Roman Private Law 61 (2d ed. 1953).
jus inter gentes
n. [Latin "law among nations"] See JUS GENTIUM.