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.
Correspondent
n. 1. The writer of a letter or letters. 2. A person employed by the media to report on events. 3. A securities firm or financial institution that performs services for another in a place or market that the other does not have direct access to. - correspond, vb. correspondent bank See BANK.
Correspondent bank
A bank that acts as an agent for another bank, or engages in an exchange of services with that bank, in a geographical area to which the other bank does not have direct access.
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.
Respondent
1. The party against whom an appeal is taken; APPELLEE. 2. The party against whom a motion or petition is filed. Cf. PETITIONER. 3. At common law, the defendant in an equity proceeding. 4. Civil law. One who answers for another or acts as another's security.
Respondent bank
a bank, association, or other entity that exercises fiduciary powers, that holds securities on behalf of beneficial owners, and that deposits the securities for safekeeping with another bank, association, or other entity exercising fiduciary powers. Sec rule 14a-1(k) (17 cfr ยง 240.14a-1(k)).
respondent bank
See BANK.
respondentia
[Law Latin fr. Latin respondere "to answer"] A loan secured by the cargo on one's ship rather than the ship itself. Cf BOTTOMRY.
respondentia bond
A contract containing the pledge of a ship's cargo; a mortgage of a ship's cargo. Cf. bottomry bond.
respondentia bond.
See BOND (2).