Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Apices juris non sunt jura.
Legal niceties are not law.
Arising-in jurisdiction
see jurisdiction.
Bonae idei non congruit de apicibus juris disputare
It is incompatible with good faith to insist on the extreme subtleties of the law.
Boni judicis est ampliare jurisdictionem
(or justitiam). It is the role of a good judge to enlarge (or use liberally) his jurisdiction (or remedial authority).
Casus omissus et oblivioni datus dispositions communis juris relinquitur
A case omitted and forgotten (not provided for in statute) is left to the disposal of the common law.
Cohaeredes una persona censentur, propter unitatem juris quod habent
Coheirs are deemed as one person, on account of the unity of right that they possess.
Corpus Juris Canonici
[Latin] Hist. The body of the canon law, compiled from the decrees and canons of the Roman Catholic Church. & The Corpus Juris Canonici emerged during the 12th century, beginning with the publication of Gratian's Decretum (1141-1150). In addition to the Decretum, it includes Raymond of Pennaforte's Liber Extra (1234), the Liber Sextus of Pope Boniface VIII (1298), the Clementines of Pope Clement V (1313), the Extrauagantes Joannis of Pope John NMI (1325), and extrauagantes published by Pope John's successors (1499-1502). In 1582, the entire collection was edited by a commission of church dignitaries and officially named the Corpus Juris Canonici. It remained the Catholic Church's primary body of law until the promulgation of the Code of Canon Law in 1917, now replaced by that of 1983.
Corpus Juris Civilis
The body of the civil law, compiled and codified under the direction of the Roman emperor Justinian in A.D. 528-534. 0 The collection includes four works - the Institutes, the Digest (or Pandects), the Code, and the Novels. The title Corpus Juris Ciuilis was not original, or even early, but was modeled on the Corpus Juris Canonici and given in the 16th century and later to editions of the texts of the four component parts of the Roman law. See ROMAN LAW (1).
Cui jurisdictio data est, ea quoque concessa esse videntur sine quibus jurisdictio explicari non potest
To whom jurisdiction is given, those things also are considered to be granted without which the jurisdiction cannot be exercised. ( That is, the grant of jurisdiction implies the grant of all powers necessary to its exercise.
Cujus juris (i.e., jurisdictionis) est principale, ejusdem juris erit accessorium
An accessory matter is subject to the same jurisdiction as its principal.
Currit tempus contra desides et sui juris contemptores
Time runs against the indolent and those who are not mindful of their rights.
De fide et officio judicis non recipitur quaestio, sed de scientia sive sit error juris sive facti
The good faith and honesty of purpose of a judge cannot be questioned, but his knowledge may be impugned if there is an error either of law or of fact.
Designatio justiciariorum est a rege; jurisdictio vero ordinaria a lege
The appointment of justices is by the king, but their ordinary jurisdiction is by the law.
Doctor of Jurisprudence
See JURIS DOCTOR.
Doctor of the Science of Jurisprudence
See DOCTOR OF JURIDICAL SCIENCE.
Error juris nocet
An error of law injures.
Est boni judicis ampliare jurisdictionenz.
I t is the role of a good judge to extend the jurisdiction.
Executio est executio juris secundum judicium
Execution is the execution of the law according to the judgment.
Fatuus, apud jurisconsultos nostros, accipitur pro non compos mentis; et fatuus dicitur, qui omnino desipit
"Fatuous," among our jurisconsults, is applied to a man not of sound mind; one is also called "fatuous" who is altogether foolish.
Fictio cedit veritati; fietio juris non est uba veritas
Fiction yields to truth; where the truth appears, there is no fiction of law.
Fictio juris non est ubi veritas
Where truth is, fiction of law does not exist.
Fides servanda est; simplicitas juris gentium praevaleat
Faith is to be preserved; the simplicity of the law of nations should prevail.
Filius est nomen naturae, sed haeres nomen juris
"Son" is a name of nature, but "heir" a name of law.
Fleta seu Commentarius Juris Anglicani
Hist. The title of an ancient treatise on English law, composed in the 13th century and first printed in 1647. ( The work is largely derivative, being based on Bracton's De Legibus et Consuetudinibus. The unknown author may have been a judge or lawyer who wrote the treatise while in London's Fleet prison. - Often shortened to Fleta.
Haeres est nomen juris, filius est nomen naturae
"Heir" is a term of law; "son" is one of nature.
Homo vocabulum est naturae; persona juris civilis
"Man" (homo) is a term of nature; "person" (persona), a term of civil law.
Ignorantia excusatur non juris sed facti.
Ignorance of fact is excused but not ignorance of law.
Ignorantia facti excusat, ignorantia jurisnon excusat
Ignorance of fact excuses; igno rance of law does not excuse. ( Every person must be considered cognizant of the law; other wise, there is no limit to the excuse of ignorance.
Ignorantia juris non excusat
Ignorance of the law does not excuse.
Ignorantia juris quod quisque scire teneturneminem excusat.
Ignorance of the law, which everyone is bound to know, excuses no one.
Ignorantia juris sui non praejudicat juri.
Ignorance of one's right does not prejudice the right.
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).
Judicia sunt tanquam juris dicta, et pro veritate accipiuntur
Judgments are, as it were, the dicta (or sayings) of the law, and are received as truth.
Judicium est quasi juris dictum
Judgment is, as it were, a pronouncement of the right (or a saying of the law).
Juris
[Latin] 1. Of law. 2. Of right.
Juris Doctor
Doctor of law -the law degree most commonly conferred by an American law school. - Abbr. J.D. - Also termed Doctor of Jurisprudence; Doctor of Law. Cf. MASTER OF LAWS; LL.B.; LL.D.
Juris effectus in executione consistit
The effect of law (or of a right) consists in the execution.
Juris ignorantia est cum jus nostrum ignoramus
It is ignorance of law when we do not know our own right.
Juris praecepta runt haec, honeste vivere, alterum non laedere, suum cuique tribuere
These are the precepts of the law: to live honorably, not to injure another, to render to each person his due.
Juris quidem ignorantiam cuique nocere, facti verum ignorantiam non nocere
Ignorance of law is prejudicial to everyone, but ignorance of fact is not.
Juris utriusque Doctor
See J.U.D.
Juriscenter
n. Conflict of laws. The jurisdiction that is most appropriately considered a couple's domestic center of gravity for matrimonial purposes.
Jurisconsult
One who is learned in the law, esp. in civil or international law; JURIST.
Jurisdictio est potestas de publico introducta, cum necessitate juris dicendi
Jurisdiction is a power introduced for the public good, on account of the necessity of dispensing justice.
Jurisdiction
n. 1. A government's general power to exercise authority over all persons and things within its territory <New Jersey's jurisdiction. 2. A court's power to decide a case or issue a decree <the constitutional grant of federal-question jurisdiction>. 3. A geographic area within which political or judicial authority may be exercised <the accused fled to another jurisdiction>. 4. A political or judicial subdivision within such an area <other jurisdictions have decided the issue differently>. - jurisdictional, adj. Cf. VENUE.
Jurisinceptor
[Latin] Hist. A student of the civil law.
Jurisperitus
adj. [Latin] (Of a person) skilled or learned in law. See LEGISPERITUS.
Jurisprude
n. 1. A person who makes a pretentious display of legal knowledge or who is overzealous about the importance of legal doctrine. 2. JURISPRUDENT.
Jurisprudence
n. 1. Originally (in the 18th century), the study of the first principles of the law of nature, the civil law, and the law of nations. - Also termed jurisprudentia naturalis (joor-is-proo-den-sheea nach-a-ray-lis). 2. More modernly, the study of the general or fundamental elements of a particular legal system, as opposed to its practical and concrete details. 3. The study of legal systems in general. 4. Judicial precedents considered collectively. 5. In German literature, the whole of legal knowledge. 6. A system, body, or division of law. 7. CASELAw. "Jurisprudence addresses the questions about law that an intelligent layperson of speculative bent - not a lawyer - might think particularly interesting. What is law? ... Where does law come from? ... Is law an autonomous discipline? . . . What is the purpose of law? ... Is law a science, a humanity, or neither? ... A practicing lawyer or a judge is apt to think questions of this sort at best irrelevant to what he does, at worst naive, impractical, even childlike (how high is up?)." Richard A. Posner, The Problems of Jurisprudence 1 (1990).