Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.

Accusator post rationabile tempus non est audiendus, nisi se bene de omissione excusaverit

A person who makes an accusation after a reasonable time has passed is not to be heard unless the person makes a satisfactory excuse for the omission.

Circuity of action is, when an action is rightfully brought for a duty, but yet about the bush, as it were, for that it might as well have been otherwise answered and determined, and the suit saved: a

Save

vb. 1. To preserve from danger or loss <save a ship in distress>. 2. To lay up; to hoard <save money>. 3. To toll or suspend (the operation, running, etc.) of something <Save a statute of limitations>. 4. To except, reserve, or exempt (a right, etc.) <to save vested rights>. 5. To lessen or avoid (a cost, resource, etc.) <save labor>.

save harmless

See HOLD HARMLESS.

save-harmless agreement

See HOLD-HARMLESS AGREEMENT.

save-harmless clause

See INDEMNITY CLAUSE.

saver default

[Law French] Hist. To excuse a default. - Also spelled saver default; saver defaut.