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Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.

Frustra est potentia quae nunquam venit in actum

Power that never comes to be exercised is useless.

Impotentia excusat legem

Powerlessness excuses (or dispenses with) law. ( The impossibility of doing what is required by the law excuses nonperformance or nonenforcement. 2 Bl. Com. 127.

In maxima potentia minima licentia

In the greatest power there is the least license.

Jus naturale est quod spud homines eandem habet potentiam

Natural right is that which has the same force among (all) mankind.

Plenipotentiary

A person who has full power to do a thing; a person fully commissioned to act for another. See minister plenipotentiary under MINISTER. "A pledge is something more than a mere lien and something less than a mortgage." Leonard A. Jones, A Treatise on the Law of Collateral Securities and Pledges § 2, at 4 (Edward M. White rev., 3d ed. 1912). "A pledge is a bailment of personal property to secure an obligation of the bailor. If the purpose of the transaction is to transfer property for security only, then the courts will hold the transaction a pledge, even though in form it may be a sale or other out-and-out transfer." Ray Andrews Brown, The Law of Personal Property § 128, at 622 (2d ed. 1936)."The pledge is as old as recorded history and is still in use, as the presence of pawnbrokers attests. In this transaction the debtor borrows money by physically transferring to a secured party the possession of the property to be used

Potentia

[Latin] Possibility; power.

Potentia debet sequi justitiam, non antecedere

Power ought to follow, not to precede, justice.

Potentia inutilis frustra est

Useless power is in vain.

Potentia non est nisi ad bonum

Power is not conferred but for the (public) good.

Potential

adj. Capable of coming into being; possible <things having a potential existence may be the subject of mortgage, assignment, or sale>.

Sequi debet potentia justitiam, non praecedere

Power should follow justice, not precede it.

Vana est illa potentia quae nunquam venit in actum

Vain is that power that never comes into action.

minister plenipotentiary

See MINISTER.

potentia propinqua

[Latin] Common possibility.

potential Pareto superiority

See WEALTH MAXIMIZATION.

propter impotentiam

[Latin] On account of helplessness. ( This was formerly given as a ground for gaining a property interest in a wild animal, based on the animal's inability to escape (as where, for example, a young bird could not yet fly away).

ratione impotentiae

By reason of inability. ( This was the basis for a property right in young wild animals that were unable to run or fly. See FERAE NATURAE.