Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Benignius leges interpretandae sunt quo voluntas earum conservetur
Laws are to be more liberally interpreted so that their intent maybe preserved.
Concordare leges legibus est optimus interpretandi modus
To make laws agree with laws is the best mode of interpreting them.
Decet (tamen) principem servare leges quibus ipse servatus est
It is proper (nonetheless) for the prince to preserve the laws by which he himself is preserved.
Distinguenda sunt tempora; distingue tempora, et concordabis leges
Times are to be distinguished; distinguish times, and you will harmonize laws.
Dormiunt aliquando leges, nunquam moriuntur
Laws sometimes sleep but never die.
Ex malis moribus bonae leges natae sunt.
Good laws are born from evil morals.
Frustra feruntur leges nisi subditis et obedientibus
Laws are made to no purpose except for those who are subject and obedient.
Inde datae leges ne fortior omnia posset.
Laws were made lest the stronger should have unlimited power.
Intentio inservire debet legibus, non leges intentioni.
The intention ought to be subject to the laws, not the laws to the intention.
Inter arena silent leges.
Amid the arms of war the laws are silent.
Interpretare et concordare leges legibus est optimus interpretandi modus.
To interpret and reconcile laws so they harmonize is the best mode of construction.
Ipsae leges cupiunt ut jure regantur
The laws themselves desire that they should be governed by right.
Judex bonus nihil ex arbitrio suo faciat nec propositione domesticae voluntatis, sed juxta leges et jura pronunciet
A good judge should do nothing from his own preference or from the prompting of his private desire; but he should pronounce according to law and justice.
Leges
n. pl. [Latin] See LEx.
Leges Angliae sunt tripartitae: jus commune, consuetudines, ac decreta comitiorum
The laws of England are threefold: common law, customs, and decrees of parliament.
Leges Regiae
Roman law. Fragments of customary law relating mostly to religious rites and traditionally attributed to Roman kings.
Leges figendi et retgendi consuetudo est periculosissima
The practice of adding and annulling laws is a most dangerous one. 4 Coke pref.
Leges humanae nascuntur, vivunt, et mori. Untur
Laws that humans have made are born, live, and die.
Leges naturae perfectissimae sunt et immutabiles; humani vero juris conditio semper in infinitum decurrit, et nihil est in eo quod perpetuo stare posit
The laws of nature are most perfect and immutable; but the condition of human law is an unending succession, and there is nothing in it that can stand forever.
Leges non verbis sed rebus sunt impositae
Laws are imposed on affairs, not words.
Leges posteriores priores contrarias abrogant
Subsequent laws repeal prior conflicting ones.
Leges suum ligent latorem
Laws should bind their own author.
Leges vigilantibus, non dormientibus subveniunt
The laws aid those who keep watch, not those who sleep (that is, the vigilant, not the negligent).
Libertinum ingratum leges civiles in pristinam servitutem redignunt; sed leges Angliae semel manumissum semper liberum judicant
The civil laws reduce an ungrateful freedman to his original slavery; but the laws of England regard a person once manumitted as ever after free.
Nemo est supra leges
No one is above the laws.
Neque leges neque senatus consulta ita scribi possunt ut omnes casus qui quandoque inciderint comprehendantur; sed sufficit ea quae plerumque accidunt contineri
Neither laws nor acts of senate can be so written as to include all cases that have happened at any time; it is sufficient that those things that usually occur are encompassed. Dig. 1.3.10. pr.
Non est novum ut priores leges ad posteriores trahantur
It is not an innovation to adapt earlier laws to later ones. Dig. 1.3.26.
Non in legendo sed in intelligendo leges consistent
.The laws consist not in reading but in understanding.
Non verbis sed ipsis rebus leges imponimus
Not upon words, but upon affairs themselves do we impose laws.
Optimus interpretandi modus est sic leges interpretare ut leges legibus accordant
The best mode of interpreting laws is to make laws agree with laws.
Pacta conventa quae neque contra leges neque dolo malo inita sunt, omni modo observanda sunt
Contracts that have been entered neither illegally nor with fraud must in all respects be observed.
Pacta quae contra leges constitutionesque vel contra bonos mores fount nullam vim habere, indubitati juris est
It is a matter of unquestionable law that contracts against the laws and statutes, or against moral standards, have no force.
Politiae legibus, non leges politiis, adaptandae
Politics are to be adapted to the laws, not the laws to politics.
Privileges and Immunities Clause
The constitutional provision (U.S. Const. art. IV, § 2, cl. 1) prohibiting a state from favoring its own citizens by discriminating against other states' citizens who come within its borders.
Privileges or Immunities Clause
The constitutional provision (U.S. Const. amend. XIV, § 1) prohibiting state laws that abridge the privileges or immunities of U.S. citizens. * The clause was effectively nullified by the Supreme Court in the Slaughter-House Cases, 83 U.S. (16 Wall.) 36 (1873). Cf. DUE PROCESS CLAUSE; EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE.
Scire leges non hoc est verbs earum tenere, sed vim et potestatem
To know the laws is to observe not their (mere) words, but their force and power.
Semper in dubiis id agendum est, ut quam tutissimo loco res sit bona fide contracts, nisi quum aperte contra leges scriptum est
Always in doubtful cases that is to be done by which a bona fide contract may be in the safest condition, except when it has been drawn up clearly contrary to law.
Silent leges inter arma
Laws are silent amid arms.
leges Angliae
n. [Latin] Hist. The laws of England, as distinguished from the civil law and other legal systems.
leges Edwardi Confessoris
n. [Latin "Laws of Edward the Confessor"] Hist. A legal treatise written between 1130 and 1135, of dubious authority, compiling English law as it stood at the end of the reign of HenryI. "[Me have a book [leges Edwardi Confessoris] written in Latin which expressly purports to give us the law of Edward as it was stated to the Conqueror in the fourth year of his reign by juries representing the various parts of England It is a private work of a bad and untrustworthy kind. It has about it something of the political pamphlet and is adorned with pious legends. The author, perhaps a secular clerk of French parentage, writes in the interest of the churches, and, it is to be feared, tells lies for them." 1 Frederick Pollock & Frederic W. Maitland, The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward 1103 (2d ed. 1898).
leges Henrici
n. [Latin] Hist. A book anonymously written between 1114 and 1118 containing Anglo-Saxon and Norman law. * The book lends insight to the period before the full development of Norman law in England. - Also termed leges Henrici Primi "Closely connected with the Quadripartitus is a far more important book, the so-called Leges Henrici. It seems to have been compiled shortly before the year 1118. After a brief preface, it gives us Henry's coronation charter (this accounts for the name which has unfortunately been given in modern days to the whole book), and then the author makes a gallant, if forlorn, attempt to state the law of England. At first sight the outcome seems to be a mere jumble of fragments But the more closely we examine the book, the more thoroughly convinced we shall be that its author has undertaken a serious task in a serious spirit; he means to state the existing law of the land 1 Frederick Pollock & Frederic W. Maitland, The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I 99 (2d ed. 1898).
leges Juliae
n. [Latin] Roman law. Laws enacted during the reign of Augustus or of Julius Caesar. 0 Together with the lex Aebutia, the leges Juliae effectively abolished the legis actiones, the ancient form of Roman civil procedure using prescribed oral forms.
leges barbarorum
n. [Latin "laws of the barbarians"] Hist. The customary laws of medieval European law; esp., the customary laws of Germanic tribes during the Middle Ages. - Also termed folk laws. See SALIC LAW.
leges et consuetudines regni
n. [Latin "laws and customs of the kingdom"] Hist. The common law. 0 This was the accepted term for the common law since at least the late 12th century.
leges imperii
[Latin] The laws of the government.
leges non scriptae
n. [Latin] Hist. Unwritten or customary laws, including ancient acts of Parliament. Cf. LEGES SCRIPTAE.
leges publicae
[Latin] Roman law. Statutes passed by the vote of the Roman people in popular assemblies. ( Most leges publicae were of temporary political interest. - Often shortened to leges.
leges sacratae
n. [Latin] Roman law. Laws whose violation was pun-ished by devoting the offender to the infernal gods.
leges scriptae,
n. [Latin] Hist. Written laws; esp., statutory laws or acts of Parliament that are reduced to writing before becoming binding. Cf. LEGES NON SCRIPTAE.
leges sub graviori lege
n. [Latin] Laws under a weightier law.