Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Agentes et consentientes pari poena plectentur
Acting and consenting parties will be liable to the same punishment.
Cogitationis poenam nemo meretur
No one deserves punishment for his thoughts.
Cogitationis poenam nemo patitur
No one punished for his thoughts.
Consentientes et agentes pari poena plectentur
Those consenting and those perpetrating will receive the same punishment.
Crescente malitia crescere debet et poena.
With increase of malice, punishment ought also to increase.
Crimen laesae majestatis omnia alia crimina excedit quoad poenam
The crime of treason exceeds all other crimes in its punishment.
Culpae poena par esto
Let the punishment be equal to the crime.
Ex frequenti delicto augetur poena
Punishment increases with repeated offense. 2 Co. Inst. 479.
Imperitia est maxima mechanicorum poena.
Unskillfulness is the greatest punishment of mechanics (i.e., from its effect in making them liable to those by whom they are employed).
In haeredes non solent transire actiones quae poenales ex maleficio sunt.
Penal actions arising from anything of a criminal nature do not pass to heirs.
In omnibus (fere) poenalibus judiciis, et aetati et imprudentiae succurritur
In almost all penal judgments, allowance is made for age (or youth) and lack of discretion. Dig. 50.17.108.
In poenalibus causis benignius interpretan.
dum est. In penal cases, the more liberal inter pretation is to be made.
In restitutionem, non in poenam, haeres succedit
The heir succeeds to the restitution, not the penalty.
Judici satis poena est quod Deum habet ultorem
It is punishment enough for a judge that he has God to take vengeance upon him.
Lubricum linquae non facile trahendum est in poenam
A slip of the tongue ought not to be easily subject to punishment.
Majore poena affectus quam legibus statuta est non est infamis
A criminal afflicted with a greater punishment than is provided by law is not infamous. 4 Co. Inst. 66.
Minima poena corporalis est major qualibet pecuniaria
The smallest bodily punishment is greater than any pecuniary one.
Multiplicata transgressione crescat poenae inlictio
The infliction of punishment should increase with the repetition of the offense. Coke continues, Ex frequenti delicto augetur poend (q.v.). 2 Co. Inst. 479.
Nemo cogitationis poenam patitur
No one suffers punishment for his thoughts.
Poena
[Latin] Punishment; penalty.
Poena ad paucos, metus ad omnes perveniat
Let punishment be inflicted on a few, dread upon all.
Poena ex delicto defuncti haeres teneri non debet
The heir ought not to be bound by a penalty for the crime of the deceased.
Poena non potest, culpa perennis erit
Punishment cannot be, guilt will be, perpetual.
Poena suos tenere debet actores et non alios
Punishment should take hold of the guilty (who commit the wrong), and not others. Bracton 380b.
Poena tolli potest, culpa perennis erit
The punishment can be removed, but the guilt will be perpetual.
Poenae potius molliendae quam exasperan dae sunt
Punishments should rather be soft ened than aggravated.
Poenae runt restringendae
Punishments should be restrained.
Poenalis
adj. [Latin] Roman law. Imposing a penalty; penal.
Quaelibet poena corporalis, quamvis minima, major est qualibet poena pecuniaria
Every corporal punishment, although the very least, is greater than any pecuniary punishment.
Quod a quoque poenae nomine exactum est id eidem restituere nemo cogitur
What has been exacted from someone as a penalty no one is obliged to restore to him.
Subpoena
n. [Latin "under penalty"] A writ commanding a person to appear before a court or other tribunal, subject to a penalty for failing to comply. - Also spelled subpena. Pl. subpoenas.
Subpoenal
adj. Required or done under penalty, esp. in compliance with a subpoena.
Transgressione multiplicata, crescat poenae inflictio
When transgression is repeated, let the infliction of punishment be increased. 2 Co. Inst. 479.
Ubi culpa est, ibi poena subesse debet
Where the fault is, there the punishment should be imposed.
Ut poena ad paucos, metus ad omnes perveniat
So that punishment afflict few, (and) fear affect all.( Blackstone cites Cicero (pro Cluentio 46) emphasizing deterrence. 4 Bl. Com. 11.
actio poenalis.
See actio ex delicto.
actiones poenales
n. pl. [Latin "penal actions"] Roman lw: Actions in which a plaintiff
alias subpoena
see subpoena.
nomine poenae
n. [Latin "in the name of penalty"] 1. Civil law. A clause in a testament requiring the heir to do something by way of penalty. 2. At common law, a penalty for nonperformance, such as additional rent to be paid by a tenant to a landlord for failing to perform certain conditions in a lease.
nulla poena sine lege
[Latin] No punishment without a law authorizing it.
poena corporalis
[Latin] Corporal punishment.
poena pilloralis
[Latin] Hist. Punishment of the pillory.
poenae secundarum nuptiarum
n. [Latin "penalties of second marriages"] Roman law. Disabilities that, for the protection of children of a first marriage, are imposed on a parent who remarries. See PARENS BINUBUS. "If either parent re-married, the interests of the children of the first marriage were protected (in the later Roman Empire) by a number of legal rules the effect of which was to confer certain benefits on the children and to impose certain disabilities - the so-called poenae secundarum nuptiarum - on the parens binubus. The most important of these rules was that which declared that all the property which the parens binubus had acquired gratuitously from his or her deceased spouse, whether by way of gift, dos, donatio propter nuptias, or testamentary disposition - the so-called lucra nuptialia - should become ipso jure the property of the children of the first marriage at the moment of the conclusion of the second marriage, and that only a usufruct should be reserved for the parens binubus." Rudolph Sohm, The Institutes: A Textbook of the History and System of Roman Private Law 477 (James Crawford Ledlie trans., 3d ed. 1907).
solvere poenas
[Latin] Hist. To pay the penalty. solvit (sol-vit). [Latin] He paid; paid.
subpoena ad testificandum
[Law Latin] A subpoena ordering a witness to appear and give testimony.
subpoena duces tecum
[Law Latin] A subpoena ordering the witness to appear and to bring specified documents or records.