Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Mace
1 Hist. A weapon used in warfare, consisting of a staff topped by a heavy head, usu. of metal. 2. A scepter; an ornamental form of weapon used as an emblem of the dignity of an office, as in Parliament and the U.S. House of Representatives. ( In the House of Commons, it is laid on the table when the Speaker is in the chair. In the U.S. House of Representatives, it is usu. placed to the right of the Speaker and is borne upright by the sergeant-at-arms on extraordinary occasions, as when necessary to quell a disturbance or bring refractory members to order. 3. A chemical liquid that can be sprayed in a person's face to cause dizziness and temporary immobilization.
Macedonian Decree
See SENATUS CONSULTUM MACEDONIAUM.
contumace capiendo
See . DE CONTUMACE CAPIENDO.
de contumace capiendo
n. [Law Latin "for arresting a contumacious person"] Hist. A writ issuing out of the Court of Chancery at the request of an ecclesiastical court that has found a person to be in contempt. 0 This writ came into use after the Ecclesiastical Courts Act of 1813 removed ecclesiastical courts' power to excommunicate litigants who failed to comply with a court order. Cf. EXCOMMUNICATO CAPIENDO. "In 1812 the case of Mary Ann Dix - a woman not of age, who was imprisoned for two years on a writ de excommunicato capiendo for not paying costs in a suit for defamation - aroused the Legislature. In the following year it was enacted that excommunication should cease to exist as part of the process of the ecclesiastical courts to enforce appearance, and as a punishment for contempt .... [F]or the writ de excommunicato capiendo was substituted the writ de contumace capiendo; and the rules applying to the older writ were made applicable to the new." 1 William Holdaworth, A History of English Law 632 (7th ed. 1956).
exceptio senatusconsulti Macedoniani
A defense to an action for the recovery of money loaned, on the ground that the loan was made to a minor or a person under another person's paternal power. ( This defense is so named from the decree of the senate that forbade the recovery of such loans.
mace-greff
Hist. A purchaser of stolen goods; esp., a person who knowingly buys stolen food. - Also spelled mace-griefe.
mace-proof
ub. To exempt from an arrest; to secure against an arrest.
senatus consultum Macedonianum
n. [Latin "Macedo's Decree"] Roman law. A senate decree, first given under Claudius and renewed by Vespasian, to protect children from making unconscionable loans with creditors in expectation of their father's death, by making actions to recover such loans unlawful. - Also termed Macedonian Decree.