Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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

Conatus quid sit non definitur injure

What an attempt is, is not defined in law.

In omnibus quidem, maxime tamen injure, aequitas spectanda sit

In all affairs indeed, but especially in those that concern the administration of justice, equity should be regarded.

Injure

[Latin "in law"] 1. According to the law. 2. Roman law. Before the praetor or other magistrate. ( In jure referred to the first stage of a Roman trial, held before the praetor for the purpose of establishing the legal issues present in the action. Evidence was taken in the second stage, which was held before a judex. - Also spelled in iure. See FORMULA (1). Cf. IN JUDICIO.

Nimia subtilitas injure reprobatur, et talis certitudo certitudinem confundit

Too great subtlety is disapproved of in law, and such certainty confounds certainty.

Non definitur injure quid sit conatus

What an attempt is, is not defined in law.

Nullum iniquum est praesumendum injure

Nothing unjust is to be presumed in law.

Omnis definitio injure civili periculosa est, parum est enim ut non subverti posit

Every definition in the civil law is dangerous, for there is very little that cannot be overthrown.

Ratio injure aequitas integra

Reason in law is perfect equity.

Scire et scire debere aequiparantur injure

To know a thing and to be bound to know it are regarded in law as equivalent.

Simplicitas est legibus amica, et nimia subtilitas injure reprobatur

Simplicity is a friend to the laws, and too much subtlety in law is condemned.

injure alterius

adv [Latin] In another's right.

injure cessio

[Latin "a surrender in law"] Roman law. A fictitious trial held to transfer ownership of property. ( At trial, the transferee appeared before a praetor and asserted ownership of the property. The actual owner also appeared, but did not contest the assertion, and so allowed the transfer of the property to the plaintiff. - Also spelled in iure cessio.

injure proprio

adv [Latin] In one's own right.