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Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.

In maxima potentia minima licentia

In the greatest power there is the least license.

In re propria iniquum admodum est alicui licentiam tribuere sententiae

It is extremely unjust to assign anyone the privilege of judgment in his own cause.

Licentia

n. [&. Latin licere "to be lawful"] Hist. License; permission.

Licentiate

n. One who has obtained a license or authoritative permission to exercise some function, esp. to practice a profession <a licentiate in law should be held to high ethical standards>.

Omnes licentiam habere his quae pro se indulta sunt renunciare

All have liberty to renounce these things that have been granted in their favor.

de licentia transfretandi

n. [Law Latin "of permission to cross the sea"] Hist. A writ ordering wardens of seaports, on certain conditions, to permit any person named in the writ to cross the sea.

ex licentia Regis

[Latin] By the king's license.

licentia concordandi

n. [Law Latin "license to agree"] Hist. One of the proceedings on levying a fine of lands. See CONGI; D'ACCORDER. "The licentia concordandi, or leave to agree the suit. For, as soon as the action is brought, the defendant knowing himself to be in the wrong, is supposed to make overtures of peace and accommodation to the plaintiff. Who, accepting them, but having, upon suing out the writ, given pledges to prosecute his suit, which he endangers if he now deserts it without license, he therefore applies to the court for leave to make the matter up." 2 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 350 (1766).

licentia loquendi

[Latin "license to speak"] See IMPARLANCE.

licentia surgendi

n. [Law Latin "license to arise"] Hist. Permission or writ from the court to a tenant in a real action to get out of bed and appear in court, following the tenant's earlier plea of inability to appear because of illness that confined the tenant to bed. * The tenant could lose the case by default for falsely claiming illness. See DE MALO; ESSOIN.