Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Aliena negotia exacto officio geruntur
The business of another is conducted with scrupulous attention.
Alienatio licet prohibeatur, consensu tamen omnium in quorum favorem prohibita esl potest fieri; et quilibet potest renunciare juri pro se introducto
Even if alienation is prohibited, it may yet take place by the consent of all in whose favor it is prohibited; it is in the power of anyone to renounce a right introduced for his own benefit.
Alienatio rei praefertur juri accrescendi
Alienation of property is favored over the right to accumulate.
Arresto facto super bonis mercatorum alienigenorum
[latin "seizure of the goods of foreign merchants"] hist. A writ to seize the goods of an alien, taken in recompense of goods taken from an english subject living abroad.
Artisan's lien
see mechanic's lien under lien.
Attachment lien
see lien
Attorney's lien.
see lien.
Attorney-client privilege.
see privilege (s)
Banker's lien
see lien
Caveat emptor qui ignorare non debuit quod jus alienum emit
Let the buyer beware; for he ought not act in ignorance when he buys what another has right to.
Client
n. A person or entity that employs a professional for advice or help in that professional's line of work. - cliental, adj.
Contrectatio rei alienae animo furandi est furtum
Touching or taking another's property with an intention of stealing is theft.
Furtum est contrectatio rei alienae fraudulenta, cum animo furandi, invito illo domino cujus res illa fuerat
Theft is the fraudulent handling of another's property, with an intention of stealing, against the will of the proprietor, whose property it had been.
In suo quisque negotio hebetior est quam in alieno.
Everyone is less perceptive (of flaws) in his own business than in that of another.
Inalienable
adj. Not transferable or assignable <inalienable property interests>. - Also termed unalienable.
Incendium aere alieno non exuit debitorem.
A fire does not release a debtor from his debt.
Iniquum est ingenuis hominibus non esse liberam rerum suarum alienationem.
It is unjust for freeborn individuals not to have the free disposal of their own property.
Lien
n. A legal right or interest that a creditor has in another's property, lasting usu. until a debt or duty that it secures is satisfied. 0 Typically, the creditor does not take possession of the property on which the lien has been obtained. - lien, ub. - lienable, liened, adj. Cf. PLEDGE (1).
Lienable
adj. (Of property) legally amenable to a lien; capable of being subject to a lien. lien accountSee ACCOUNT.
Lienee
1 One whose property is subject to a lien. 2. An encumbrancer who holds a lien; LIENHOLDER. "[A] mortgagee is the owner of the property, while a pledgee or other henee is merely an encumbrancer of it." John Salmond, Jurisprudence 440 (Glanville L. Williams ed., 10th ed. 1947).
Lienholder
A person having or owning a lien. Also termed lienor; lienee.
Lienor
See LIENHOLDER.
Nemo alienae rei, sine satisdatione, defensor idoneus intelligitur
No one is considered a competent defender of another's property, without security.
Nemo alieno nomine lege agere potest. No
one can sue at law in the name of another.
Nemo debet immiscere se rei alienae ad se nihil pertinenti
No one should interfere in another's business that does not at all concern him.
Nemo debet locupletari aliena jactura
No one ought to be enriched at another's expense.
Nemo plus juris ad alienum transferre potent quam ipse haberet
No one can transfer to another a greater right than he himself might have. Dig. 50.17.54.
Nemo praesumitur alienam posteritatem suae praetulisse
No one is presumed to have preferred another's posterity to his own.
Nemo punitur pro alieno delicto
No one is punished for the crime or wrong of another.
Nullus jus alienum forisfacere potest
No one can forfeit another's right.
Poenae potius molliendae quam exasperan dae sunt
Punishments should rather be soft ened than aggravated.
Prohibetur ne quis faciat in suo quod nocere possit alieno
It is prohibited for anyone to do on his own property what may injure another's.
Qui non habet potestatem alienandi habet necessitatem retinendi
A person who has not the power of alienating is obliged to retain.
Regulariter non valet pactum de re mea non alienanda
As a rule, a contract not to alienate my property is not binding.
Respondeat raptor, qui ignorare non potuit quod pupillum alienum abduxit
Let the ravisher answer, for he could not be ignorant that he has taken away another's ward.
Sic utere tuo ut alienum non laedas
So use your own as not to injure another's property.
Superlien
A statutory lien that is superior to all existing liens and all later-filed liens on the same property. ( Superliens are sometimes granted to a state's environmental-protection agency. Several states - such as Arkansas, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, and Tennessee - have enacted statutes creating superliens on property owned by a party responsible for environmental cleanup. Supermajority See MAJORITY.
Unalienable
adj. See INALIENABLE.
Videtur qui surdus et mutus ne poet faire alienation
A deaf and mute person is considered not to be able to alienate.
abalienation
n. [fr. Latin abalienare "to alienate"] Civil law. The transfer of an interest or title in property; ALIENATION (2). 9 In Roman law, the term was abalienatio ("a perfect conveyance from one Roman citizen to another"), which was anglicized to abalienation. - abalienate, vb.
accountant's lien
The right of an accountant to retain a client's papers until the accountant's fees have been paid.
accountant's lien.
See LIEN,
accountant-client privilege
The protection afforded to a client from an accountant's unauthorized disclosure of materials submitted to or prepared by the accountant.
aes alienum
n. [latin "another's money"] roman law. money owed to another; borrowed money.
agent's lien
A lien against property of the estate, in favor of an agent, to secure the agent's compensation as well as all necessary expenses incurred under the agent's power.
agent's lien.
see lien
agister's lien
A lien on the animals under an agister's care, to secure payment of the agister's fee. See AGISTER; AGISTMENT.
agricultural lien
1 A statutory lien that protects a seller of farming equipment by giving the seller a lien on crops grown with the equipment. 2. Secured transactions. An interest (other than a security interest) in farm products having three characteristics: (1) it must secure payment or performance of an obligation for goods or services furnished in connection with a debtor's farming operation, or of an obligation for rent on real property leased by a debtor in connection with farming; (2) it must be created by statute in favor of a person either who in the ordinary course of business furnished goods or services to a debtor in connection with the debtor's farming, or who leased real property to a debtor in connection with the debtor's farming; and (3) the effectiveness of the interest must not depend on the person's possession of the personal property. UCC ยง 9-102(a)(3).
alien
ub. see alienati
alien ami
see alien friend under alien.