Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Euin qui nocentenz infamat, non est aequuniet bonum ob eam rem condemnari; delicta enim nocentium nota esse oportet et expodit
It is not just and proper that one wiv, speaks ill of a bad person should be condemm -c on that account; for it is fitting and expediew that the wron'doinfis of bad poople should be known.
Legem terrae amittentes perpetuam infamiae notam inde merito incurrunt
Those who lose the law of the land thereby justly incur an eternal stigma of infamy.
Nomen est quasi rei notamen
A name is, as it were, the distinctive sign (or signifier) of a thing.
Nomina sunt notae rerum
Names are the marks of things.
Nota
n. [Latin "mark"] Hist. 1. A promissory note. 2. A brand placed on a person by law.
Notarial
adj. Of or relating to the official acts of a notary public <a notarial seal>. See NOTARY PUBLIC.
Pronotary
n. First notary.
Prothonotary
n. A chief clerk in certain courts of law. - Also termed protonotary. - prothonotarial, adj.
Protonotary
See PROTHONOTARY.
United States Code Annotated
A multivolume publication of the complete text of the United States Code with historical notes, crossreferences, and casenotes of federal and state decisions construing specific Coda sections. -Abbr. USCA.
adnotatio
[latin] roman law. a note written in the margin of a document; esp., the reply of the emperor in his own hand to a petition addressed to him. see rescript (3).
annotatio
[latin] rescript (3).
annotation
n. 1. a brief summary of the facts and decision in a case, esp. one involving statutory interpretation. 2. a note that explains or criticizes a source of law, usu. a case. ( annotations appear, for example, in the united states code annotated (usca). 3. a volume containing such explanatory or critical notes. - annotate (an-a-tayt), vb. - annotative (an-a-tay-tiv), adj. - annotator (an-a-tay-tar), n. cf. note (2)."one of the most important classes of search books is those included in the category of annotations. they are important and valuable, in that they often purport to rove, in very condensed form, some indication of the law, deduced from the cases or statutes, as well as to point out where similar cases can be found." william m. lile et al., brief making and the use of law books 84 (3d ed. 1914).
bona notabilia
Notable goods; property worth accounting for in a decedent's estate.
bona notabilia.
See BONA.
clerici praenotarii
[Law Latin "prenotary clerks"] See six CLERKS.
denotative fact
A fact relevant to the use of a nonlegal term in a legal rule.
journal of notarial acts
The notary public's sequential record of notarial transactions, usu. a bound book listing the date, time, and type of each official act, the type of instrument acknowledged or verified before the notary, the signature of each person whose signature is notarized, the type of information used to verify the identity of parties whose signatures are notarized, and the fee charged. ( This journal, required by law in most states, provides a record that may be used as evidence in court. - Also termed notarial record; notarial register; notary record book; sequential journal.
levis nota
n. [Latin] Hist. Slight mark or brand.
nota bene
See N.B.
notae
n. pl. [Latin] Hist. Shorthand characters. See NOTARIUS.
notarial act.
An official function of a notary public, such as placing a seal on an affidavit. See NOTARY PUBLIC.
notarial protest certificate
See PROTEST CERTIFICATE.
notarial record
See JOURNAL Or• NOTARIAL ACTS.
notarial register
See JOURNAL OF NOTARIAL ACTS.
notarial seal
See NOTARY SEAL.
notarial will
See WILL.
notarial will.
A will executed by a testator in the presence of two witnesses and a notary public.
notarius
n. [fr. Latin note "a character or mark"] 1. Roman law. A writer (sometimes a slave) who takes dictation or records proceedings by shorthand. 0 A notarius was later also called a scriba. 2. Roman law. An officer who takes a magistrate's dictation by shorthand. 3. Hist. An officer who prepares deeds and other contracts. 4. A notary or a scribe.
notary public
n. A person authorized by a state to administer oaths, certify documents, attest to the authenticity of signatures, and perform official acts in commercial matters, such as protesting negotiable instruments. - Often shortened to notary. - Abbr. n.p. Pl. notaries public. - notarize, vb. -notarial, adj.
notary record book
See JOURNAL OF NOTARIAL ACTS.
notary seal
1. The imprint or embossment made by a notary public's seal. 2. A device, usu. a stamp or embosser, that makes an imprint on a notarized document. - Also termed notarial seal. embossed seal. 1. A notary seal that is impressed onto a document, raising the impression above the surface. ( An embossed seal clearly identifies the original document because the seal is only faintly reproducible. For this reason, this type of seal is required in some states and on some documents notarized for federal purposes. 2. The embossment made by this seal.
notation credit
A letter of credit specifying that anyone purchasing or paying a draft or demand for payment made under it must note the amount of the draft or demand on the letter. See LETTER OF CREDIT.
quod nota
[Latin] Hist. Which note; which mark. ( This is a reporter's note directing attention to a point or rule.