Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
CVSG
abbr. A call for the view of the Solicitor General - an invitation from the U.S. Supreme Court for the Solicitor General's views on a pending petition for writ of certiorari in a case in which, though the government is not a party, governmental interests are involved.
Disgorgement
n. The act of giving up something (such as profits illegally obtained) on demand or by legal compulsion. - disgorge, ub.
Disgrading
Hist. 1. The act of degrading. 2. The depriving of an order; the depriving of a dignity. "Disgrading, or degrading, is when a man having taken upon him a dignity temporal or spiritual, is afterwards thereof deprived, be he knight, clerk or other. Whereof if a clerk be delivered to his ordinary, and cannot clear himself of the offence whereof
Mandatarius terminos sibi positos transgredi non potest
A mandatary cannot exceed the bounds of his authority.
Multiplicata transgressione crescat poenae inlictio
The infliction of punishment should increase with the repetition of the offense. Coke continues, Ex frequenti delicto augetur poend (q.v.). 2 Co. Inst. 479.
Palsgraf rule
Torts. The principle that negligent conduct resulting in injury will lead to liability only if the actor could have reasonably foreseen that the conduct would injure the victim. ( In Palsgraf u. Long Island R.R., 248 N.Y. 339, 162 N.E. 99 (1928), two railroad attendants negligently dislodged a package of fireworks from a man they were helping board a train. The package exploded on impact and knocked over some scales that fell on Mrs. Palsgraf. The New, York Court of Appeals, in a 4-3 majority opinion written by Chief Justice Benjamin Cardozo, held that the attendants could not have foreseen the possibility of injury to Palsgraf and therefore did not breach any duty to her. In the dissenting opinion, Justice William S. Andrews asserted that the duty to exercise care is owed to all, and thus a negligent act will subject the actor to liability to all persons proximately harmed by it, whether foreseeable or not. Both opinions have been widely cited to support the two views expressed in them.
SG
abbr. 1. SOLICITOR GENERAL. 2. SURGEON GEN ERAL.
Transgression
Archaic. See MISDEMEANOR.
Transgressione multiplicata, crescat poenae inflictio
When transgression is repeated, let the infliction of punishment be increased. 2 Co. Inst. 479.
Ubi non est lex, ibi non est transgressio quoad mundum
Where there is not law, there is not transgression, as far as this world is concerned.
breve de transgressione super casum
See TRESPASS ON THE CASE.
de transgressione
n. [Law Latin "of trespass"] The general name of various writs of trespass. See TRESPASS.
de transgressione, ad audiendum et terminandum
n. [Law Latin "of determining and hearing a misdemeanor"] Hist. A commission for hearing and determining an outrage or misdemeanor.
disgavel
ub. Hist. To convert (gavelkind land) into ordinary freehold land. See GAVELKIND.
disguised dividend
See informal dividend under DIVIDEND.
disguised installment sale
Bankruptcy. A debtor's leasing ploy to try to keep property outside the bankruptcy estate, whereby a lease either presents the lessee-debtor with a bargain purchase option or transfers title to the lessee-debtor at the end of the lease term. ( When such a lease is discovered, the property is treated as part of the bankruptcy estate, meaning that to defeat competing creditors, the lessor must have perfected a security interest.
husgablum
n. [Old English] Hist. A tax or tribute levied upon a house; house rent.
transgressione, ad audiendum et terminandum
See DE TRANSGRES. SIONE, AD AUDIENDUM ET TERMINANDUM.
transgressive trust
A trust that violates the rule against perpetuities.