Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
A justitia (quasi a quodam fonte) omnia jura emanant
From justice, as from a fountain. all rivhts flow
A piratis aut latronibus capti liberi permanent.
Those captured by pirates or robbers remain free.
Admanuensis
n. [Law Latin fr. Latin ad- + manus "a hand"] Hist. An oath-taker who places a hand on the Bible.
Affirmanti, non neganti, incumbit probation
The proof is incumbent upon the one who affirms, not on the one who denies.
Affirmantis est probare
The person who affirms must prove.
Aliquid conceditur ne injuria remaneat ampunita quod alias non concederetur
Something is conceded that otherwise would not be conceded, so that a wrong not remain unpuir ished.
Arimanni
n. [law latin] hist. A fine for not joining the army when summoned.
Article of manufacture
see manufacture.
Asset under management
A securities portfolio for which an investment adviser provides ongoing, regular supervisory or management services.
Asset under management.
see asset.
Bad-man theory
the jurisprudential doctrine or belief that a bad person's view of the law represents the best test of what the law actually is because that person will carefully calculate precisely what the rules allow and operate up to the rules' s limits (
Bagman
a person who collects and distributes illegally obtained money; esp., an intermediary who collects a bribe for a public official.
Bail bondsman
see bailer (1).
Bailiffs of manors
hist. Persons appointed to superintend the estates of the nobility. 0 these bailiffs collected fines and rents, inspected buildings, and took account of waste, spoils, and misdemeanors in the forests and demesne lands.
Bailsman
see bailer (1)
Battered-woman syndrome
the medical and psychological condition of a woman who has suffered physical, sexual, or emotional abuse at the hands of a spouse or lover. ( this syndrome is sometimes proposed as a defense to justify a woman's killing of a man. - sometimes (more specifically) termed battered-wife syndrome; (more broadly) battered-spouse syndrome.
Beneficium principis debet esse mansurum
.The benefaction of a prince ought to be be lasting.
Bondsman
1. One who guarantees a bond; a surety. 2. A serf or peasant; vILLEIN. - Also termed (in sense 2) bondman.
Boni judicis est judicium sine dilatione mandare executioni
It is the role of a good judge to render judgment for execution without delay.
Chairman of Committees of the Whole House
The member of Parliament who presides over the House of Commons when it is sitting in committee.
Claimant
n. One who asserts a right or demand, esp. formally.
Command
1. An order; a directive. 2. In legal positivism, the sovereign's express desire that a person act or refrain from acting a certain way, combined with the threat of punishment for failure to comply."Commands are orders backed by threats. It is in virtue of threatened evils, sanctions, that expressions of desire not only constitute commands but also impose an obligation or duty to act in the prescribed ways." Martin P. Golding, Philosophy of Law 26 (1975).
Commander in Chief Clause
The clause of the U.S. Constitution appointing the President as supreme commander of the military. U.S. Const. art. I, ยง 8, cl. 3.
Consuetudo manerii et loci observanda est.
The custom of a manor and place is to be observed.
Consuetudo, licet sit magnae auctoritatis, nunquam tamen praejudicat manifestae veritati.
A custom, even if it is of great authority, is never prejudicial to plain truth.
Corpus humanum non recipit aestimationem
The person of a human being can have no price put on it.
Countermand
n. An action that has the effect of voiding something previously ordered; a revocation. -- countermand (kown-tar-mand or kown-), ub.
Daysman
Hist. 1. An arbitrator; an elected judge; an umpire. 2. A day laborer. -Also spelled deiesman.
Deathsman
An executioner; a hangman.
Demand
ub. 1. To claim as one's due: to require; to seek relief. 2. To summon; to call into court.
Demandant
Archaic. The plaintiff in a real action (the defendant being called a tenant). See real action under ACTION.
Demandress
Archaic. A female demandant.
Denman's Act
Hist. 1. The (English) Evidence Act of 1843, providing that no person offered as a witness can be excluded because of incapacity due to a past crime or an interest in the proceedings. - Also termed Lord Denman's Act. 2. The (English) Criminal Procedure Act of 1865 that allowed defense counsel to sum up evidence as allowed in a civil trial, to prove contradictory statements of an adverse witness, to prove a previous criminal conviction of an adverse witness, and to compare disputed handwriting. - Also termed Mr. Denman's Act.
Dormant Commerce Clause
See COMMERSCE CLAUSE.
Dormant Commerce Clause. The constitutional principle that the Commerce Clause prevents state regulation of interstate commercial activity even when Congress has not acted under its Commerce Clause po
Commerce Court. See COURT
Draftsman
See drafter
Duo sunt instrumenta ad omnes res _aut confirmandas aut impugnandas, ratio el auctoritas
There are two instruments for confirming or impugning everything: reason and authority.
Ecclesia est domus mansionalis omnipotentis dei
The church is the mansionhouse of the omnipotent God.
Ecclesia est infra aetatem et in custodia domini regis, qua tenetur jura et haereditates ejusdem manu tenere et defendere
The church is underage and in the custody of the king, who is bound to uphold and defend its rights and inheritances.
Emancipate
vb. 1. To set free from legal, social, or political restraint; esp., to free from slavery or bondage. 2. To release (a child) from the control, support, and responsibility of a parent or guardian. - emancipative, emancipatory, adj. - emancipator, n.
European Court of Human Rights
The judicial body - established in 1950 and sitting at Strasbourg - of the Council of Europe. ( The Convention on Human Rights of 1950, in force as of 1953, does not necessarily form part of the domestic law of member nations, nor is a member nation obliged to accept this court's jurisdiction.
Fama, quae suspicionem inducit, oriri debet apud bonos et graves, non quidem malevolos et maledicos, sed providas et fide dignas personas, non semel sed saepius, quia clamor minuit et defamatio manife
Report, which induces suspicion, ought to arise from good and grave men; not, indeed, from malevolent and malicious men, but from cautious and credible persons; not only once, but frequently, for clamor diminishes, and defamation manifests.
Gentleman
Xist. 1. A man of noble or gentle birth or rank; a man above the rank of yeoman. 2. A man belonging to the landed gentry. ( Today the term has no precise legal meaning.
Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod
An officer of the House of Lords who has various ceremonial duties, including the summoning of the members of the House of Commons to the House of Lords when a bill is to receive royal approval. * The office dates from the 14th century.
In maleficio ratihabitio mandato comparatur
In delict (or tort), ratification is equivalent to authorization. Dig. 43.16.1.15.
In rebus manifestis errat qui auctoritates legum allegat; quia perspicua vera non sunt probanda
A person errs who adduces authorities on the law in matters self-evident; because obvious truths need not be proved.
Interest reipublicae ne maleficia remaneant impunita.
It is in the interest of the state that crimes not remain unpunished.
JAG Manual
See MANUAL OF THE JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL.
Jurisprudentia est divinarum atque humanarum rerum notitia, justi atque injusti scientia
Jurisprudence is the knowledge of things divine and human, the science of the just and the unjust. Just. Inst. 1.1.1.
Kleptomania
n. A compulsive urge to steal, esp. without economic motive. - kleptomaniac, n. & adj.