Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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Argumentum ad populum
[latin] an argument appealing to the crowd.
Bastardus nullius est filius, aut filius popu-
li. A bastard is nobody's son, or the son of the people.
Cui pater est populus non habet ille patrem.
That person to whom the people is father has not a father.
Depopulation
1. A reductions in population. 2. Hist. A species of waste by which the kingdom's population was diminished. See DEPOPULATIO AGRORUM.
Jus civile est quod sibi populus constituit
The civil law is what a people has established for itself.
Maximus erroris populus magister
The people are the greatest master of error.
Pop
n. Telecommunications. A calculation of the potential customer base for a mobile-phoneservice provider, calculated by the number of people living in the area multiplied by the company's percentage ownership of the area's cellular service.
Poppean law
See LEX PAPIA POPPEA.
Populus
[Latin] Roman law. The people; the whole body of Roman citizens, patricians, and plebeians.
Quod populus postremum jussit, id jus ratum esto
What the people have last enacted, let that be the established law.
Quod principi placuit legis habet vigorem; utpote cum lege regia, quae de imperio ejus lata est, populus ei et in eum omne suum imperium et potestatem conferat
A decision of the emperor has the force of law; for, by the royal law that has been made concerning his authority, the people have conferred upon him all their sovereignty and power. Dig. 1.4.1.
Salus populi (est) suprema lex
The safety of the people is the supreme law. a The phrase is sometimes put in the imperative: Salus populi suprema lex esto (let the safety of the people be the supreme law).
Stat pro ratione voluntas populi
The will of the people stands in place of a reason.
Ubi nulls est conjectura quae ducat alio, verba intelligenda sunt ex proprietate non grammatica sed populari ex usu
Where there is no inference that would lead in another direction, the words are to be understood according to their proper meaning, not strictly accordin" to gnaintiiar but acrc)rdiw, to ponol:cr usage.
depopulatio agrorum
n. [Law Latin "depopulating the county"] Hist. The crime of destroying or ravaging a country. 0 A person could not claim the benefit of clergy for this crime.
filius populi
[Latin son of the people"] Hist. An illegitimate child.
grammatica sed populari ex usu
If there is no inference that leads to a different result, words are to be understood according to their proper meaning, not in a grammatical but in a popular and ordinary sense.
in terrorem populi
adv. [Latin] Hist. To the terror of the people. ( This phrase was necessary in an indictment for riot.
lex Papia Poppea
n. [Latin] Roman law. A law proposed by the consuls Papius and Poppeus at the request of Augustus. ( It is usu. considered with the lex Julia de maritandis ordinibus as one law. -Also termed Papian law; Poppean law. See lex Julia de maritandis ordinibus under LEX JULIA.
lollipop syndrome
A situation in which one parent in a custody battle provides the child with fun, gifts, and good times, and leaves all matters of discipline to the other parent.
popular action
See QUI TAM ACTION.
popular election
See ELECTION.
popular election.
An election by people as a whole, rather than by a select group.
popular justice
Demotic justice, which is usu. considered less than fully fair and proper even though it satisfies prevailing public opinion in a particular case. Cf social justice. "Nothing is more treacherous than popular justice in many of its manifestations, subject as it is to passion, to fallacy, and to the inability to grasp general notions or to distinguish the essential from the inessential." Carleton K. Allen, Law in the Making 387 (7th ed. 1964).