Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Praxis
Greek "doing; action"i In critical legal studies, practical action: the practice of living the ethical life in conjunction and in cooperation with others.
Praxis judicum est interpres legum
The practice of the judges is the interpreter of the laws.
mala praxis
[Law Latin] Hist. Malpractice; unskilled treatment, esp. by a doctor. "Injuries, affecting a man's health, are where by any unwholesome practices of another a man sustains any apparent damage in his vigor or constitution. As by selling him bad provisions or wine or by the neglect or unskilful management of his physician, surgeon, or apothecary. For it hath been solemnly resolved that mala praxis is a great misdemeanor and offence at common law, whether it be for curiosity and experiment, or by neglect; because it breaks the trust which the party had placed in his physician, and tends to the patient's destruction." 3 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 122 (1768).