Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Argentarius miles
n. [law latin] hist. A money porter who carries money from the lower to the upper exchequer to be examined arid tested
Five Mile Act
Hist. A 1665 act prohibiting Puritan ministers from teaching or coming within five miles of any town where they had held office if they refused to pledge that they would not seek to overturn the Church of England. 0 The Act was repealed in 1689.
In consimili casu consimile debet esse remedium
In a similar case, the remedy should be similar.
Mile
1. A measure of distance equal to 5,280 feet. - Also termed statute mile. 2. NAUTICAL MILE.
Mileage
1. The distance in miles between two points. 2. The distance a vehicle has traveled as reflected by an odometer. 3. An allowance paid for travel expenses, as of a witness or public employee.
Miles
n. [Latin] 1. Roman law. A soldier. 2. Hist. A knight.
Nullum simile est idem
Nothing that is like another is the same.( That is, no likeness is exactly identical.
Nullum simile est idem nisi quatuor pedibus currit
Nothing similar is identical, unless it run on all fours.
Nullum simile quatuor pedibus currit
No simile runs upon four feet (on all fours ).( No simile holds in every respect.
Talis non est eadem, nam nullum simile est idem
"Such" is not "the same," for nothing similar is the same thing.
facsimile
1. An exact copy. 2. FAX.
facsimile signature
1. A signature that has been prepared and reproduced by mechanical or photographic means. 2. A signature on a document that has been transmitted by a fascimile machine. See FAX.
facsimile transmission
See FAx.
nautical mile
A measure of distance for air and sea navigation, equal to one minute of arc of a great circle of the earth. ( Different measures have been used by different countries because the earth is not a perfect sphere. Since 1959, however, the United States has used an international measure for a nautical mile, set by the Hydrographic Bureau, equal to 6,076.11549 feet, or 1,852 meters.
statute mile
See MILE (1).
three-mile limit
The distance of one marine league or three miles offshore, usu. recognized as the limit of territorial jurisdiction.
three-mile limit, but bays and gulfs are not always recognized as state property. territorial sea
See territorial waters under WATER.
ton mile
In transportation, a measure equal to the transportation of one ton of freight one mile.