Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Compact Clause
U.S. Const. art. I, § 10, cl. 3, which disallows a state .from entering into a contract with another state or a foreign country without congressional approval.
Debitorum pactionibus creditorum petitio nec tolli nee minui potest
The creditors' suit can be neither quashed nor diminished by the contracts of their debtors.
Dolo malo pactum se non servaturum
An agreement induced by fraud will not preserve itself (will not stand).
Ex nudo pacto non oritur action
No action arises on a contract without a consideration.
Ex pacto illicito non oritur action
From an illicit contract no action arises.
Foeminae non sunt capaces de publicis officiis
Women are not qualified for public offices.
In commodato haec pactio, ne dolus pra-Vetur, rata non est
In a loan for use (cor,.modatum), a pact excluding liability for fraud is invalid. a Often extended to contracts for loans in general. Dig. 13.6.17.
In contrahenda venditione, ambiguum pactum contra venditorem interpretandum est
In the contract of sale, an ambiguous agreement is to be interpreted against the seller.
Incapacitation
n. 1. The action of disabling or depriving of legal capacity. 2. The state of being disabled or lacking legal capacity. - incapacitate, vb.
Incapacity
1. Lack of physical or mental capabilities. 2. Lack of ability to have certain legal consequences attach to one's actions. 0 For example, a five-year-old has an incapacity to make a binding contract. 3. DISABILITY (1). 4. DISABILITY (2). Cf. INCOMPETENCY.
Indictment de felony est contra pacem domini regis, coronam et dignitatem suam, in genere et non in individuo; quia in Anglia non est interregnum.
Indictment for felony is against the peace of our lord the king, his crown and dignity, in general and not in his individual person; because in England there is no interregnum.
Interest reipublicae ut pax in regno conservetur et quaecunque paci adversentur provide declinentur.
It is in the interest of the state to preserve peace in the kingdom and prudently to decline whatever is adverse to it.
Jus publicum privatorum pactis mutari non potest
A public right cannot be changed by agreements of private parties.
Longa possessio est pacis jus.
Long possession is a right of peace.
Maxime paci sunt contraria vis et injuria
The greatest enemies to peace are force and wrong.
National Aeronautics and Space Act
A 1958 federal statute that created the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), a civilian agency of the federal government whose functions include conducting space research, improving aeronautical travel, building manned and unmanned space vehicles, developing operational space programs, and engaging in other space activities devoted to peaceful purposes for the benefit of all humankind. 42 USCA §§ 2451-2484.
Nuda pactio obligationem non parit
A naked agreement (i.e., without consideration) does not create an obligation. Dig. 2.14.7.4.
Nuda ratio et nuda pactio non ligant aliquem debitorem
Bare reason and naked agreement do not bind any debtor.
Nudum pactum est ubi nulla subest causa praeter conventionem; sed ubi subest causa, fit obligatio, et parit actionem
Naked agreement (nudum pactum) is where there is no consideration besides the agreement; but when there is a consideration, an obligation is created and it gives a right of action.
Nudum pactum ex quo non oritur action
Naked agreement (nudum pactum) is that from which no action arises.
PAC
abbr. POLITICAL-ACTION COMMITTEE.
PACER
abbr. PUBLIC ACCESS TO COURT ELECTRONIC RECORDS.
Pac-Man defense
An aggressive an titake over defense by which the target company attempts to take over the bidder company by making a cash tender offer for the bidder company's shares. ( The name derives from a video game popular in the 1980s, the object of which was to gobble up the enemy. This defense is seldom used today.
Pacare
vb. [Law Latin] Hist. To pay.
Pacific Reporter
A set of regional lawbooks that, being part of the West Group's National Reporter System, contain every published decision from Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming, from 1883 to date. ( The first series ran from 1883 to 1931. - Abbr. P.; P.2d.
Pacificist
See PACIFIST.
Pack
vb. To choose or arrange (a tribunal, jurors, etc.) to accomplish a desired result <pack a jury>.
Pact
An agreement between two or more parties; esp., an agreement (such as a treaty) between two or more nations or governmental entities.
Pacta conventa quae neque contra leges neque dolo malo inita sunt, omni modo observanda sunt
Contracts that have been entered neither illegally nor with fraud must in all respects be observed.
Pacta dant legem contractui
Agreements give law to the contract.
Pacta privata juri publico derogare non possunt
Private contracts cannot restrict (or take away from) public law.
Pacta quae contra leges constitutionesque vel contra bonos mores fount nullam vim habere, indubitati juris est
It is a matter of unquestionable law that contracts against the laws and statutes, or against moral standards, have no force.
Pacta quae turpem causam continent non sunt observanda
Contracts founded upon an immoral consideration are not to be observed.
Pactional
adj. Relating to or generating an agreement. - pactionally, adv.
Pactis privatorum juri publico non derogatur
There is no derogation from public law by private contracts.
Pacto aliquid licitum est quod sine pacto non admittitur
By agreement (or contract) something is permitted that, without agreement, is not allowed. 0 Coke continues, "but not in violation of public law." Co. Litt. 166.
Possessio pacifica per annos 60 facit jus
Peaceable possession for 60 years gives a right.
Privatis pactionibus non dubium est non laedi jus caeterorum
There is no doubt that the rights of others (not party to the agreement) cannot be prejudiced by private agreements.
Re, verbis, scripto, consensu, traditione, junctura vestes sumere pacta solent
Compacts usually take their clothing from the thing itself, from words, from writings, from consent, from delivery, from the joining together.
Regulariter non valet pactum de re mea non alienanda
As a rule, a contract not to alienate my property is not binding.
Traditionibus et usucapionibus, non nudis pactis, transferuntur rerum dominia
Rights of property are transferred by delivery and by prescription (founded on lengthy possession), not by naked agreements.
Triennalis pacificus possessor beneficii est inde securus
The undisturbed possessor of a nefice for three years is thereafter secure
Vulla pactione effici potest ne dolus praestetur
No agreement is sufficient to effect that there be no liability for fraud. Dig. 2.14.27.3.
adverse impact
see disparate impact.
age of capacity
the age, usu. defined by statute as 18 years, at which a person is legally capable of agreeing to a contract, executing a will, maintaining a lawsuit, or the like. - also termed age of majority; legal age; lawful age. see capacity.
capacitate
ub. To qualify; to make legally competent. - capacitation (kapas-a-tay-shan), n.
capacity defense
A defense based on the defendant's inability to be held accountable for an illegal act or the plaintiff's inability to prosecute a lawsuit (as when the plaintiff was a corporation, but has lost its corporate charter). See CAPACITY.
capacity defense.
See DEFENSE
capacity to sue.
See CAPACITY (2)
capacity.
1. The role in which one performs an act <in her corporate capacity>.