Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Cui pater est populus non habet ille patrem.
That person to whom the people is father has not a father.
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.
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.