Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Factum infectum ieri nequit
What is done cannot be undone.
Infect
vb. 1. To contaminate <the virus infected the entire network>. 2. To taint with crime <one part of the city has long been infected with illegal drug-dealing>. 3. To make (a ship or cargo) liable in the seizure of contraband, which is only a part of its cargo <claiming that the single package of marijuana had infected the ship, the Coast Guard seized the entire vessel>. - infection, n. - infectious, adj.
Quod contra legem fit, pro infecto habetur
What is done contrary to the law is considered as not done.
damnum infectum
[Latin] Roman law. Loss not yet suffered but threatened or apprehended, as when a neighbor's building is about to collapse onto one's property.
infection, doctrine of
Int'l law. The principle that any goods belonging to an owner of contraband and carried on the same ship as the contraband may be seized or otherwise treated in the same manner as the contraband itself