Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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Ad quaestiones facti non respondent judices; ad quaestiones legis non respondent juratores
Judges do not answer questions of fact; jurors do not answer questions of law.
Ad quaestiones legis judices, et non juratores, respondent
Judges, and not jurors, answer questions of law.
De fide et officio judicis non recipitur quaestio, sed de scientia sive sit error juris sive facti
The good faith and honesty of purpose of a judge cannot be questioned, but his knowledge may be impugned if there is an error either of law or of fact.
Multiplex et indistinctum parit confusionem; et quaestiones quo simpliciores, eo lucidiores
Multiplicity and indistinctness produce confusion: the simpler questions are, the more lucid they are.
Quaestio
n. [Latin fr. quaerere "to inquire"] Roman law. 1. A special committee appointed to hear one or more criminal cases, sometimes with the power to try all cases of a given class arising within a specified period. 2. An interrogation by inflicting torture. 3. The torture so inflicted. Pl. quaestiones. Quaestionarius (kwes-chee-a-pair-ee-as) . See QUAESTOR.
Quemadmodum ad quaestionem facti non respondent judices, ita ad quaestionem juris non respondent juratores
In the same manner that judges do not answer questions of fact, so jurors do not answer questions of law.
judex quaestionis
Roman law. The chairman of the jury in a criminal case, normally a magistrate of lower rank than praetor.
quaestio vexata
[Law Latin] See VEXED QUESTION.
quaestiones perpetuae
[Latin "perpetual inquiries"] Roman law. Permanent commissions to hear criminal cases.
vexata quaestio
See VEXED QUESTION.