Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Accusator post rationabile tempus non est audiendus, nisi se bene de omissione excusaverit
A person who makes an accusation after a reasonable time has passed is not to be heard unless the person makes a satisfactory excuse for the omission.
Fidepromission
n. [Latin "faith-promise"] Roman law. A contract of guaranty by stipulation. 0 Fidepromission was one of the five types of adpromission. - fidepromissor, n. See ADPROMISSION; STIPULATION.
Omission
n. 1. A failure to do something; esp., a neglect of duty <the complaint alleged that the driver had committed various negligent acts and omissions>. 2. The act of leaving something out <the contractor's omission of the sales price rendered the contract void>. 3. The state of having been left out or of not having been done <his omission from the roster caused no harm>. 4. Something that is left out, left undone, or otherwise neglected <the many omissions from the list were unintentional>. -Formerly also termed omittance. - omit, ub. - omissive, omissible, adj.
act of omission.
See negative act under ACT (2).
adpromission
roman law. 1. a suretyship contract. roman law had five types of adpromission: (1) sponsion; (2) fidepromission; (3) fidejussion; (4) mandatum; and (5) pactum de constituto. 2. a suretyship relation. - also termed adpromissio. - adpromissor, n.
crime of omission
An offense that carries as its material component the failure to act.
errors-and-omissions insurance
An agreement to indemnify for loss sustained because of a mistake or oversight by the insured - though not for loss due to the insured's intentional wrongdoing. ( For example, lawyers often carry this insurance as part of their malpractice coverage to protect them in suits for damages resulting from inadvertent mistakes (such as missing a procedural deadline). While this insurance does not cover the insured's intentional wrongdoing, it may cover an employee's intentional, but unauthorized, wrongdoing. - Often shortened to E & O insurance.
fault of omission
Negligence resulting from a negative act. See negative act under ACT (2).
intromission
1. The transactions of an employee or agent with funds provided by an employer or principal; loosely, dealing in the funds of another. 2. Scots law. An intermeddling with the affairs or property of another; the possession of another's property, with or without legal authority.
legal intromission
See INTROMISSION.
legal intromission.
An authorized intromission, such as a creditor's enforcement of a debt.
necessary intromission
See INTROMISSION.
necessary intromission.
The intromission occurring when a spouse continues in possession of the deceased spouse's goods, for preservation.
vitious intromission
An heir's unauthorized dealing with the personal property of a deceased person. - Also spelled vicious intromission. "The effect of vitious intromission is to render the heir who is guilty of it liable, under the passive title of vitious intromission, for the debts of the ancestor universally -the severity of this passive title being intended to prevent the carrying off of moveables, which are, from their nature, so liable to embezzlement." William Bell, Bell's Dictionary and Digest of the Law of Scotland 521 (George Watson ed., 1882) 3. Penile penetration into the vagina.