Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

A non posse ad non esse sequitur argumentum necessarie negative, licet non affirmative.

From impossibility to nonexistence the inference follows necessarily in the negative, though not in the affirmative.

Aggravated assault

Criminal assault accompanied by circumstances that make it more severe, such as the use of a deadly weapon, the intent to commit another crime, or the intent to cause serious bodily harm.

Assart

Hist. 1. The action of pulling up trees and bushes in a forest to make the land arable. ( this was a crime if done without a license. 2.a piece of land made arable by clearing a forest.

Assassination

n. The act of deliberately killing someone, esp. A public figure, usu. For hire or for political reasons. - assassinate, vb. -assassin, n.

Assault

n. 1. Criminal & tort law. The threat or use of force on another that causes that person to have a reasonable apprehension of imminent harmful or offensive contact; the act of putting another person in reasonable fear or apprehension of an immediate battery by means of an act amounting to an attempt or threat to commit a battery. 2. Criminal law. An attempt to commit battery, requiring the specific intent to cause physical injury. - also termed (in senses 1 and 2) simple assault. 3. Loosely, a battery. 4. Popularly, any attack. - assault, vb. - assaultive, adj. Cf. Battery.

Assault and battery.

loosely, a criminal battery. See battery.

Assault purpense

see assault.

Assault to rape

see assault with intent to commit rape.

Assault with a deadly weapon

see assault.

Assault with intent

Any of several assaults that are carried out with an additional criminal purpose in mind, such as assault with intent to murder, assault with intent to rob, assault with intent to rape, and assault with intent to inflict great bodily injury. ( these are modern statutory inventions that are often found in state criminal codes.

Assault with intent to commit rape

see assault.

Assault with intent to commit rape1

An assault carried out with the additional criminal purpose of intending to rape the victim. - also termed assault to rape.

Assaultee

a person who is assaulted. Assaulter. A person who assaults another.

Assay

n. 1. A proof or trial, by chemical experiments, of the purity of metals, esp. Gold and silver. 2. An examination of weights and measures.

Assayator regis

see assayer of the king.

Assayer

one who makes assays of precious metals.

Assayer of the king

hist. An officer of the royal mint, appointed by st. 2 hen. 6, ch. 12, who receives and tests bullion taken in for coining. - also termed assayator regis.

Assessable insurance

see insurance.

Assessable security

see security.

Assessable stock

see stock.

Attempted assault

An attempt to commit an assault. - also termed attempt to assault.

Attempted assault.

see assault

Bonum necessarium extra terminos necessitates non est bonum

A thing good from necessity is not good beyond the limits of the necessity.

Catalla juste possessa amitti non possunt

Chattels rightly possessed cannot be lost.

Cessa regnare, si non vis judicare

Cease to reign if you wish not to adjudicate.

Cessante causa, cessat effectus

The cause ceasing, the effect ceases.

Cessante ratione legis cessat et ipsa lex.

When the reason of the law ceases, the law itself also ceases.

Cessante statu primitivo, cessat derivativus.

When the original estate comes to an end; the derivative estate is also at an end.

Civil assault

An assault considered as a tort and not as a crime. ( although the same assaultive conduct can be both a tort and a that give rise to civil liability.

Clausula generalis non refertur ad expressa

A general clause does not refer to things expressly mentioned.

Compromissarii aunt judices

Arbitrators are judges.

Compromissarius

(kom-pra-mi-sair-ee-as).[Latin] Roman law. See ARBITRATOR.

Conditional assault

an assault express a threat on condition, such as "your money your life."

Court of Cassation

The highest court of France. ( The court's name derives from its power to quash (casser) the decrees of inferior courts. - Also termed (more formally) Cour de Cassation.

Criminal assault

an assault considered a crime and not as a tort. 0 this term isola the legal elements that give rise to criminal liability even though the act might also have been tortious.

Cui jurisdictio data est, ea quoque concessa esse videntur sine quibus jurisdictio explicari non potest

To whom jurisdiction is given, those things also are considered to be granted without which the jurisdiction cannot be exercised. ( That is, the grant of jurisdiction implies the grant of all powers necessary to its exercise.

Designatio unius est exclusio alterius, et expressum facit cessare tacitum

The designation of one is the exclusion of the other; and what is expressed prevails over what is implied.

Dismissal

n. 1. Termination of an action or claim without further hearing, esp. before the trial of the issues involved,

Dispensatio est mali prohibiti provida relaxatio, utilitate seu necessitate pensata; et est de jure domino regi concessa, propter impossibilitatem praevidendi de omnibus particularibus

A dispensation is the provident relaxation of a malum prohibitum weighed from utility or necessity; and it is conceded by law to the king on account of the impossibility of foreknowledge concerning all particulars.

Donationum alia perfecta, alia incepta et non perfecta; ut si donatio lecta fuit et concessa, ac traditio nondum fuerit subsecuta

Some gifts are perfect, others incipient and not perfect; for example, if a gift were read and agreed to, but delivery had not then followed.

Dotissa

n. [Law Latin] A dowager.

Embassador

See AMBASSADOR.

Emissary

One sent on a special mission as another's agent or representative, esp. to promote a cause or to gain information.

Examples include deprivation of food or medication, beatings, oral assaults, and isolation. - Also termed elder abuse. carnal abuse. See sexual abuse.

Excusable assault

an assault committed accident or while doing a lawful act by law means, with ordinary caution and with any unlawful intent.

Expressa nocent, non expressa non nocent.

Things expressed do harm; things not expressed do not.

Expressa non prosunt quae non expressa proderunt

There is no benefit in expressing what will benefit when unexpressed.

Expressum facit cessare tacitum

Something expressed nullifies what is unexpressed.

Felonious assault

an assault that is of s ficient severity to be classified and as a felony. See aggravated assault.

Fidei-commissarius

See CESTUI QUE TRUST.