Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Manus
[Latin "hand"] 1. Roman law. The power exercised by the head of a family over all its members and slaves; esp., a husband's power over his wife. 2. Hist. A compurgator, or the oath taken. ( This usage of manus may stem from the affiant's placing a hand on the Bible while taking the oath. See COMPURGATOR.
Manuscript
An unpublished writing; an author's typescript or written work product that is proposed for publication.
amoveas manus
law latin "that you remove your hands"] hist. 1. a judgment ordering the crown to relinquish possession of land to the complainant. ( the judgment is so called from the emphatic words quod manus domini regis amoveantur ("that the hands of the king be removed"). 2. the writ issued on the judgment.
duodecima manus
[Latin] Twelve men. "The manner of waging and making law is this. He that has waged, or given security, to make his law, brings with him into court eleven of his neighbours: . . . for by the old Saxon constitution every man's credit in courts of law depended upon the opinion which his neighbours had of his veracity. The defendant then, standing at the end of the bar, is admonished by the judges of the nature and danger of a false oath .... And thereupon his eleven neighbours or compurgators shall avow upon their oaths that they believe in their consciences that he saith the truth . . . . It is held indeed by later authorities . . . that fewer than eleven compurgators will do: but Sir Edward Coke is positive that there must be this number . . . for as wager of law is equivalent to a verdict in the defendant's favor, it ought to be established by the same or equal testimony, namely, by the oath of twelve men. And so indeed Glanvil expresses it, .... ;jurabit duodecima manu' . . . . " 3 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws ofEngland 343 (1768).
germanus
[Latin] Roman law. 1. adj. Having the same father and mother. 2. n A whole brother; a child of both of one's own parents.
homo Romanus (ra-may-nas). A Roman. ( A term used in Germanic law codes to describe the Roman inhabitants of Gaul and other former Roman provinces. homo sui juris
See PATERFAMILIAS.
manus mortua
[Latin "dead hand"] See MORTMAIN.
manuscript policy
An insurance policy containing nonstandard provisions that have been negotiated between the insurer and the insured.
molliter manus imposuit
[Latin] Hist. He gently laid hands upon. ( This phrase was used in actions of trespass and assault to justify a defendant's use of force as reasonable, as when it was necessary to keep the peace.
vestita manus
n. [Latin "vested hand"] Hist. The right hand used in the ceremony of investiture.