Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
In facto quod se habet ad bonum et malum magis de bona quam de malo lex intendit.
In an act (or deed) that may be considered good or bad, the law looks more to the good than to the bad.
Intend
vb. 1. To have in mind a fixed purpose to reach a desired objective; to have as one's purpose <Daniel intended to become a lawyer. 2. To contemplate that the usual consequences of one's act will probably or necessarily follow from the act, whether or not those consequences are desired for their own sake <although he activated the theater's fire alarm only on a dare, the jury found that Wilbur intended to cause a panic>. 3. To signify or mean <the parties intended for the writing to supersede their earlier handshake deal>.
Intended beneficiary
a third-party beneficiary who is intended to benefit from a contract and thus acquires rights under the contract as well as the ability to enforce the contract once those rights have vested. -also termed direct beneficiary. Cf., incidental beneficiary.
Lew semper intendit quod convenit rationi
The law always intends what is agreeable to reason.
Lex intendit vicinum vicini facta scire
The law presumes that one neighbor knows the actions of another.
Lex non intendit aliquid impossibile
The law does not intend anything impossible.
Magis de bono quam de malo lex intendit
The law favors a good rather than a bad construction.( When an agreement's words are susceptible of both a favorable and unfavorable meaning, the former is adopted. Thus, a bond conditioned to assign all offices will be construed to apply to assignable offices.
Merito beneficium legis amittit qui legem ipsam subvertere intendit
A person deservedly loses the protection of the law who attempts to overturn the law itself.
Nihil iniquius quam aequitatem nimis intendere
Nothing is more unjust than to extend equity too far.
Superintendent
A person with the power to direct activities; a manager. superintending control See CONTROL
common intendment
The natural or common meaning in legal interpretation. 3. A person's expectations when interacting with others within the legal sphere.
expected/intended exclusion
A provision in some commercial general liability policies, excluding coverage for property damage or bodily injury that is expected or intended by the insured, except any harm arising from the use of reasonable force to protect a person or property. ( This exclusion is sometimes referred to as "exclusion a" because it is the first exclusion listed on most policies. - Also termed exclusion a; intentional-injury exclusion.
intendant
A director of a government agency, esp. (as used in 17th- and 18thcentury France) a royal official charged with the administration of justice or finance. intended beneficiary See BENEFICIARY.
intended to be recorded.
not yet filed with a public registry, but forming a link in a chain of title.
intended-use doctrine
Products liability. The rule imposing a duty on a manufacturer to develop a product so that it is reasonably safe for its intended or foreseeable users. ( In determining the scope of responsibility, the court considers the defendant's marketing scheme and the foreseeability of the harm.
intendment
1. The sense in which the law understands something <the intendment of a contract is that the contract is legally enforceable>. - Also termed intendment of law. 2. A decision-maker's inference about the true meaning or intention of a legal instrument <there is no need for intendment, the court reasoned, when the text of the statute is clear>. - Formerly also spelled entendment.
superintending control
The general supervisory control that a higher court in a jurisdiction has over the administrative affairs of a lower court within that jurisdiction.