Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Aedilcare in tuo proprio solo non licet quod alteri noceat
It is not lawful to build upon one's own land what may be injurious to another.
Clausula vel dispositio inutilis per praesumptionem remotam vel causam ex post facto non fulcitur
A useless clause or disposition is not supported by a remote presumption or by a cause arising afterwards. ( A useless clause or disposition is one that expresses no more than the law by intendment would have supplied; it is not supported by a remote presumption or foreign intendment of some purpose, in regard whereof it might be material, or by a cause arising afterwards that may induce an operation of those idle words.
Defalcation
n. 1. EMBEZZLEMENT. 2. Loosely, the failure to meet an obligation; a nonfraudulent default. 3. Archaic. A deduction; a setoff. - defalcate (di-fal-kayt or dee-), vb. - defalcator, n.
Donatio perlcitur possessione accipientis
A gift is rendered complete by the possession of the receiver.
Falcidian law
Roman law. A law prescribing that no one could give more than three-fourths of one's property in legacies and that the heirs should receive at least onefourth (the Falcidian portion). ( If the testator violated this law, the heir had the right to deduct proportionally from each legatee as necessary. The law, proposed by the Roman tribune Falcidius, was enacted in 40 B.C. - Also termed lex falcidia. See LEGITIME. "A large number of small legacies might [either] leave nothing for the heir [or] make his part so small as to seem valueless in his eyes. But a Falcidian law, passed in the year 40 B.C., put an end to the whole difficulty. This law secured to the heir a quarter of the net value of the estate; the legatees could obtain only three-quarters: if the legatees named in the will amounted to more than this, they were diminished by proportional reductions .... Few measures have accomplished their purpose more satisfactorily than the Falcidian law, which remained in force through the history of the empire, and holds an important place in the system of Justinian." James Hadley, Introduction to Roman Law 321-22 (1881).
Falcidian portion
Roman law. The one-fourth part of an estate that one or more instituted heirs are entitled to retain. ( The Falcidian portion has been abolished in Louisiana, but a legitime heir is entitled to a portion by law. -Also termed quarta falcidia. See forced heir under HEIR; LEGITIME.
Falconer error
A trial court's failure to instruct the jury that a guilty finding on a manslaughter charge requires acquittal on a murder charge. Falconer u. Lane, 905 F.2d 1129 (7th Cir. 1990).
Folcland
See FOLKLAND.
LC
abbr. 1. LETTER OF CREDIT. 2. LETTER OF CREDENCE. - Also written L/C.
Lex delcere non potest in justitia exhibenda
The law cannot fail in dispensing justice.
Mulcta damnum famae non irrogat
A fine does not impose a loss of reputation.
Nemo potest contra recordum verilcare per patriam
No one can verify by the country against a record.( Certain matters of record cannot be contested in court. 2 Co. Inst. 380.
SLC.
abbr. SPECIAL LITIGATION COMMITTEE.
Welching
See welshing
alcalde
[fr. arabic al-qadi "the cadi" or "the judge"] spanish law. 1. hist. a judicial officer. ( the alcalde's functions typically resembled those of a justice of the peace. 2. the mayor of a spanish or spanish-american town, usu. with a judicial element. ( this is the modern sense.
alcoholometer
see breathalyzer.
aqua dulcis
n. fresh water. - also termed aqua frisca.
blood alcohol content.
The concentration of alcohol in one's bloodstream, expressed as a percentage. 0 Blood alcohol content is used to determine whether a person is legally intoxicated, esp. under a driving-while-intoxicated law. In many states, a blood alcohol content of .08% is enough to charge a person with an offense. - Abbr. BAC. - Also termed blood alcohol count, blood alcohol concentration. See DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE; DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED.
de calceto reparando
n. [Law Latin "for repairing a causeway"] Hist. A writ directing a sheriff to distrain residents of a place to repair a road.
de fine non capiendo pro pulchre placitando
n. [Law Latin "of not taking a fine for amending a bad pleading"] Hist. A writ prohibiting the imposition of a fine for bad pleading. See BEAUPLEADER.
fine non capiendo pro pulchre placitando
[Latin "a .fine not to be taken for pleading fairly"] Hist. A writ prohibiting court officers from taking fines for fair pleading (i.e., beaupleader).
jus falcandi
n. [Latin] Hist, The right of mowing or cutting.
lex Falcidia
See FALCIDIAN LAW.
malconduct in office
See official misconduct under MISCONDUCT.
mulct
, n. A fine or penalty.
mulct,
ub. 1. To punish by a fine. 2. To deprive or divest of, esp. fraudulently.
non solaendo pecuniam ad quam clericus mulctatur pro non-residentia
[Latin] Hist. A writ prohibiting an ordinary from taking a pecuniary mulct imposed on a clerk of the sovereign for nonresidence.
quanta falcidia
[Latin "Falcidian fourth"] See FALCIDIAN PORTION.