Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Proviso
1 A limitation, condition, or stipulation upon whose compliance a legal or formal document's validity or application may depend. 2. In drafting, a provision that begins with the words provided that and supplies a condition, exception, or addition.
Proviso est providere praesentia et futures, non praeterita
A proviso is to provide for things present and future, not past.
Provisor
1 Hist. A provider of care or sustenance. 2. Eccles. law. A person nominated by the Pope to be the next incumbent of a benefice that is not yet vacant.
casu proviso
[Latin "in the case provided"] Hist. A writ of entry to recover a reversion in land alienated by a tenant in dower, i.e., a widow with a life estate in the alienated land.