Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Ambiguum placitum interpretari debet contra proferentem.
An ambiguous plea ought to be interpreted against the party pleading it.
Contraplacitum
[Latin! Hist. A counterplea.
Electio semel facta, et placitum testatum, non patitur regressum
An election once made, and a plea witnessed (or intent shown), allows no going back.
Placitum
n. [Latin] Hist. 1. Roman law. An agreement between parties. 2. Roman law. An imperial constitution. 3. A judicial decision. 4. A court; a judicial tribunal. 5. A judicial proceeding; a trial. 6. A fine, mulct, or pecuniary punishment. 7. A pleading or plea. 8. A paragraph or section of a title or page where the point decided in a case is set forth separately. - Abbr. (in sense 8) pl. Pl. placita.
commune placitum
[Latin "common plea"] Hist. A common plea between persons, as opposed to a plea of the Crown (i.e., a criminal action). Pl. communia placita.
placitum fractum
[Law Latin] Hist. A day past or lost to the defendant.
placitum nominatum
[Law Latin] Hist. The day appointed for a defendant to appear and plead.
spatae placitum
n. [Latin "the plea of the sword"] Hist. During the reign of Henry II, a court providing swift justice in military matters.