Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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Nude

adj. 1. Naked; unclothed. 2. Lacking in consideration or in some essential particular. See NUDUM PACTUM. 3. Mere; lacking in description.

nude contract

See NUDUM PACTUM.

nude matter.

A mere allegation."[N]ude matter is not of so high nature, as either a mater of Record or a speciality, otherwise there called mater in deede; which maketh mee to thinke, that nude mater is a naked allegation of a thing done, to be proved only by witnesses, and not either by Record, or other speciality in writing vnder seale." John Cowell, The Interpreter (1607).

nude pact

See NUDUM PACTUM.