Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Liberate
n. [Law Latin] Hist. 1. A chancery writ to the Exchequer ordering the payment of an annual pension or other sum. 2. A writ to the sheriff authorizing delivery of any property given as bond and then taken when a defendant forfeited a recognizance. 3. A writ to a jailer ordering delivery of a prisoner who had paid bail. 4. A writ to a sheriff commanding him to deliver to the plaintiff lands or goods pledged as part of a commercial trade loan arrangement (a statute staple) available in certain merchant towns in England. ( If a debtor defaulted on this obligation, the creditor could obtain a writ of extent, which directed the sheriff to take an inventory and entitled the creditor to keep the debtor's property for a time until the rentals on the property equaled the amount due. The writ of liberate was issued after the inventory had been performed under the writ of extent. See EXTENT; STAPLE.
Nihil est enim liberate quod non idem jutum
For there is nothing generous that is not at the same time just.
deliberate
adj. 1. Intentional; premeditated; fully considered. 2. Unimpulsive; slow in deciding.
deliberate elicitation
Criminal procedure. The purposeful yet covert drawing forth of an incriminating response (usu. not during a formal interrogation) from a suspect whose Sixth Amendment right to counsel has attached but who has not waived that right. 0 Deliberate elicitation may occur, for example, when a police officer engages an arrested suspect in conversation on the way to the police station. Deliberate elicitation violates the Sixth Amendment. Massiah u. United States, 377 U.S. 201, 84 S.Ct. 1199 (1964). deliberate-indifference instruction See jEwELL INSTRUCTION.
deliberate speed, with all
As quickly as the maintenance of law and order and the welfare of the people will allow, esp. with respect to the desegregation of public schools. Brown u. Board of Educ., 347 U.S. 483, 74 S.Ct. 686 (1954).
non omittas propter liberatem
[Latin "do not omit because of any liberty"] Hist. A clause, usu. contained in writs of execution, directing the sheriff to execute the writ regardless of whether the sheriff had been granted the requisite special authority from a franchise (liberty) or district. nonoperating income. See INCOME.
with all deliberate speed
See DELIBERATE SPEED, WITH ALL.