Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Act of Supremacy.
Hist. A statute that named the English sovereign as supreme head of the Church of England (26 Hen. 8, ch. 1). 0 The Act was passed in 1534 during Henry VIII's reign and confirmed in 1559 (1 Eliz., ch. 1) to counteract pro-Catholic legislation enacted during the reign of Mary Tudor.
Aequitas supervacua odit
Equity abhors superfluous things.
Ambiguitas verborum latens verifacatione suppletur; nam quod ex facto oritur ambiguum verificatione facti tollitur
A latent ambiguity in wording is resolved by evidence; for whatever ambiguity arises from an extrinsic fact is resolved by extrinsic evidence.
Ambulatoria est voluntas defuncti usque ad vitae supremum exitum.
The will of a decedent is ambulatory (that is, can be altered) until the last moment of life.
Arresto facto super bonis mercatorum alienigenorum
[latin "seizure of the goods of foreign merchants"] hist. A writ to seize the goods of an alien, taken in recompense of goods taken from an english subject living abroad.
Articuli super cartas
[law latin "articles upon the charters"] hist. A statute passed in 1300 to confirm and enlarge many particulars of magna carta and the forest charter.
Bancus superior
upper bench. ( the king's bench was so called during the protectorate (1653-1659). - abbr. B.s. - also termed bancus publicus ("public bench").
Carcer non supplicii causa sed custodiae constitutus
A prison is established not for the sake of punishment, but for detention under guard.
Casus fortuitus non est supponendus
A chance event is not to be presumed.
Chartarum super fidem, mortuis testibus, ad patriam de necessitudine recurrendum est
(A dispute) regarding the veracity of deeds, with the witnesses dead, must necessarily be referred to the country (or jury).
Citationes non concedantur priusquam exprimatur super qua re fieri debet citatio
Citations should not be granted before it is stated about what matter the citation is to be made.
Commenda, est facultas recipiendi et retinendi beneficium contra jus positivum a suprema potestate
A commendam is the power of receiving and retaining a benefice contrary to positive law, by supreme authority.
Confirmatio omnes supplet defectus, licet id quod actum est ab initio non valuit
Confirmation supplies all defects, even if that which has been done was not valid at the beginning.
Dominus rex nullum habere potest parem, multo minus superiorem
The king cannot have an equal, much less a superior.
F.Supp
abbr. Federal Supplement, a series of reported decisions of the federal district courts (from 1932 to 1998), the U.S. Court of Claims (1932 to 1960), and the U.S. Customs Court (from 1949 to 1998, but renamed the Court of International Trade in 1980). ( It is the first of the Federal Supplement series.
F.Supp.
2d. abbr. The second series of the Federal Supplement, which includes decisions of federal district courts and the Court of International Trade from 1997 to the present. ( Some of the F.Supp. volumes contain cases from 1998 and some of the F.Supp.2d volumes contain cases decided in 1997.
Federal Supplement
See F.SUPP.
Federal Supplement 2d
See F.SUPP.2D.
Indeftnitum supplet locum universalis.
The undefined supplies the place of the whole.
Interest reipublicae suprema hominum testaments rata haberi.
It is in the interest of the state that a person's last will should be held valid.
Jus superveniens auctori accrescit successori
An additional or enhanced right for the possessor accrues to the successor.
Le salut du peuple est la supreme loi
The safety of the people is the highest law.
Lex rejicit superlua, pugnantia, incongrua
The law rejects superfluous, contradictory, and incongruous things.
Malitia supplet aetatem
Malice makes up for age.
Master of the Supreme Court
An official of the Queen's Bench and Chancery Divisions of the Supreme Court who fills the several positions of master in the common-law courts, the Queen's Coroner and Attorney, the Master of the Crown Office, record and writ clerks, and associates.
Mors dicitur ultimum supplicium
Death is called the extreme penalty.
Natura non facit vacuum, nec lex supervacuum
Nature makes no vacuum, and the law nothing purposeless.
Nemo est supra leges
No one is above the laws.
New York Supplement
A set of regional lawbooks that, being part of the West Group's National Reporter System, contain every published decision from intermediate and lower courts of record in New York, from 1888 to date. 0 The first series ran from 1888 to 1937; the second series is the current one. - Abbr. N.Y.S.; N.Y.S.2d.
Nobilitas est duplex, superior et inferior
There are two sorts of nobility, the higher and the lower.
Non concedantur citationes priusquam exprimatur super qua re fieri decet citatio
Summonses should not be granted before it is expressed upon what ground a summons should be issued.
Nonsupport
The failure to support a person that one is legally obliged to provide for, such as a child, spouse, or other dependent. ( Nonsupport is a crime in most states, where it is often termed criminal nonsupport.
Omnis privatio praesupponit habitum
Every privation presupposes possession. a "Every discontinuance is a privation and he cannot discontinue that estate which he never had." Co. Litt. 339a.
Pareto superiority
n. An economic situation in which an exchange can be made that benefits someone and injures no one. 9 When such an exchange can no longer be made, the situation becomes one of Pareto optimality. - Pareto-superior, adl pari causa, in. See IN PAHI CAI-SA.
Potestas suprema seipsum dissolvere potest, ligare non potest
Supreme power can dissolve (or release), but cannot bind, itself.
Privatio praesupponit habitum
Deprivation presupposes possession.
Quod omnes tangit, ab omnibus debet supportari
What touches (or concerns) all ought to be supported by all.
Respondeat superior
Let the principal answer.
SUP
abbr. SPECIAL-USE PERMIT.
Sacrilegus omnium praedonum cupiditatem et scelerem superat
A sacrilegious person surpasses the greed and wickedness of all other robbers.
Salus populi (est) suprema lex
The safety of the people is the supreme law. a The phrase is sometimes put in the imperative: Salus populi suprema lex esto (let the safety of the people be the supreme law).
Salus reipublicae suprema lex
The safety of the state is the supreme law.
Super
[Latin] Above; over; higher.
Supercargo
Maritime law. A person specially employed and authorized by a cargo owner to sell cargo that has been shipped and to purchase returning cargo, at the best possible prices; the commercial or foreign agent of a merchant. "Supercargoes are persons employed by commercial companies or by private merchants to take charge of the cargoes they export to foreign countries, to sell them there to the best advantage, and to purchase proper commodities to relade the ships on their return home. They usually go out with the ships on board of which the goods are embarked, and return home with them, and in this they differ from factors who live abroad The supercargo is the agent of the owners, and disposes of the cargo and makes purchases under their general instructions on his own responsibility." 70 Am. Jur. 2d Shipping ยง 886, at 1025 (1987).
Superductio
[Latin] Roman law. The obliteration of part of a will or other document by writing on top of something erased within it.
Superfeudation
See SUPERINFEUDATION,
Superficies
n. [Latin "surface"] Roman & civil law. 1. The surface of the ground. 2. An improvement that stands on the surface of the ground, such as a building. 3. The right of a superficiarius.
Superficies solo cedit
The surface goes with the land.( That is, whatever is attached to the land forms part of it.
Superfund
1 The program that funds and administers the cleanup of hazardous-waste sites through a trust fund (financed by taxes on petroleum and chemicals and a new tax on corporations) created to pay for cleanup pending reimbursement from the liable parties. 2. The popular name for the act that established this program - the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA). See CERCLA.
Supericiarius
n. [Latin] Roman low. A person who had a hereditary and alienable right to a building on another's land subject to the payment of an annual rent.