Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Acta in uno judicio non probant in alio nisi inter easdem personas
Things done in one action cannot be taken as evidence in another, unless it is between the same parties.
Actio personalis moritur cum persona
A personal action dies with the person.
Actus inceptus cujus perfectio pendet ex voluntate partium revocari potest; si autem pendet ex voluntate tertiae personae, velex contingenti, revocari non potest
An act already begun whose completion depends upon the will of the parties may be recalled; but if it depends on consent of a third person or on a contingency, it cannot be recalled.
Aequitas agit in personam
Equity acts upon the person.
Cohaeredes una persona censentur, propter unitatem juris quod habent
Coheirs are deemed as one person, on account of the unity of right that they possess.
Crimen trahit personam
The crime brings with it the person. ( That is, the commission of a crime gives the courts of the place where it is committed jurisdiction over the person of the offender.
Cum duo jura concurrunt in una persona, aequum est ac si essent in duobus
When two rights meet in one person, it is the same as if they were in two persons.
Debita sequuntur personam debitoris
Debts follow the person of the debtor. 0 That is, debts belong to no locality and may be collected wherever the debtor can be found.
Decimae de jure divino et canonica institutione pertinent ad personam.
Tithes belong to the parson by divine right and canonical institution.
Dispersonare
ub. [Latin] Hist. To scandalize, disparage, or slander.
Ecclesiae magis favendum est quam personae
The church is to be more favored than the parson (or an individual).
Falsa demonstratio non nocet, cum de corpore (persona) constat
False description does not injure or vitiate, provided the thing or person intended has once been sufficiently described. ( Mere false description does not make an instrument inoperative.
Fama, quae suspicionem inducit, oriri debet apud bonos et graves, non quidem malevolos et maledicos, sed providas et fide dignas personas, non semel sed saepius, quia clamor minuit et defamatio manife
Report, which induces suspicion, ought to arise from good and grave men; not, indeed, from malevolent and malicious men, but from cautious and credible persons; not only once, but frequently, for clamor diminishes, and defamation manifests.
Haeres est eadem persona cum antecessore
The heir is the same person as the ancestor.
Homo vocabulum est naturae; persona juris civilis
"Man" (homo) is a term of nature; "person" (persona), a term of civil law.
Impersonal
See IN REM.
Impersonalitas non concludit nee ligat.
Im. personality neither concludes nor binds.
Impersonation
The act of impersonating someone. - Also termed personation.
In omni actione ubi duae concurrunt districtiones, videlicet in rem et in personam, illa districtio tenenda est quae magis timetur et magis ligat
In every action where two distresses (or forms of distraint) concur, that is in rem and in personam, the distraint is to be chosen that is more dreaded and that binds more firmly. Bracton 372.
Jura personarum
See JURA.
Litis nomen omnem actionem signifzcat, sive in rem, sive in personam sit
The word "lis" (a lawsuit) signifies every action, whether it is in rem or in personam.
Mobilia personam sequuntur, immobilia situm
Movable things follow the person; immovable ones, their locality.
Mobilia sequuntur personam
Movables follow the person.
Natura fide jussionis sit strictissimi juris et non durat vel extendatur de re ad rem, de persona ad personam, de tempore ad tempus
The nature of the contract of suretyship is strictissimi juris, and does not endure or should not be extended from thing to thing, from person to person, or from time to time.
Nil facit error nominis cum de corpore vel persona constat
An error in the name is immaterial when the body or person is certain.
Omnis persona est homo, sed non vicissim
Every person is a human being, but not every human being a person.
Persona
n. [Latin] Roman law. A person; an individual human being.
Persona conjuncta aequiparatur interesse proprio
A personal connection is equivalent to one's own interest.
Persona est homo cum statu quodam consideratus
A person is a human being considered with reference to a certain status.
Persona ficta
[Latin "false mask"] Hist. A fictional person, such as a corporation. "But units other than individual men can be thought of as capable of acts, or of rights and liabilities: such are Corporations and even Hereditates lacentes. Accordingly the way is clear to apply the name of person to these also. The mediaeval lawyers did so, but as they regarded Corporations as endowed with personality by a sort of creative act of the State, and received from the Roman lawyers the conception of the hereditas iacens as representing the persona of the deceased rather than as itself being a person, they called these things Personae Fictae, an expression not used by the Romans." W.W. Buckland, Elementary Principles of the Roman Private Law 16 (1912).
Personable
adj. Having the status of a legal person (and thus the right to plead in court, enter into contracts, etc.) <a personable entity.
Personae vice fungitur municipium et decuria
Towns and boroughs act in the role of persons.
Personal
adj. 1. Of or affecting a person <personal injury>. 2. Of or constituting personal property <personal belongings>. See IN PERSONAM.
Personal asset
an asset in the form of' money or chattels.
Personalia personam sequuntur
Personal things follow the person.
Personaliter
adu. [Latin] Personally; in person.
Personality
The legal status of one regarded by the law as a person; the legal conception by which the law regards a human being or an artificial entity as a person. - Also termed legal personality. "Legal personality refers to the particular device by which the law creates or recognizes units to which it ascribes certain powers and capacities." George Whitecross Paton, A Textbook of Jurisprudence 393 (G.W. Paton & David P. Derham eds., 4th ed. 1972).
Personalty
Personal property as distinguished from real property. See personal property (1) under PROPERTY. quasi personalty. Things that are considered movable by the law, though fixed to real property either actually (as with a fixture) or fictitiously (as with a lease for years).
Personam
See IN PERSONAM.
Personation
See IMPERSONATION,
Privilegium est beneficium personale et extinguitur cum persona
A privilege is a benefit belonging to a person, and it dies with the person.
Quae cohaerent personae a persona separari nequeunt
Things that belong to the person cannot be separated from the person.
Quando duo jura concurrunt in una persona, aequum est ac si essent in diversis
When two rights run together in one person, it is the same as if they were in separate persons.
Servitia personalia sequuntur personam
Personal services follow the person (of the lord).( Such "personal services" were those "annexed to the person of the Mesne, as homage, fealty, etc." 2 Co. Inst. 374.
Si quidem in nomine, cognomine, praenomine, agnomine legatarii testator erraverit, cum de persona constat, nihilominus valet legatum
If the testator has erred in the name, cognomen, praenomen, or title of the legatee, when there is certainty about the person, the legacy is nonetheless valid.
Terminus et (ac) feodum non possunt constare simul in una eademque persona
Term and fee cannot both be vested in one and the same person at the same time.
Una persona vix potest supplere vices dziarum
One person can scarcely supply the place of two
Verba dicta de persona intelligi debent de conditione personae
Words spoken of the person are to be understood of the condition of the person.
Verba generalia restringuntur ad habilitatem rei vel aptitudinem personae
General words are limited to the capability of the subject matter or the aptitude of the person.
Verba generalia restringuntur ad habilitatem rei vel personae
General words are limited to the capability of the subject matter or of the person.