Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Ecclesia ecclesiae decima solvere non debet.
A church should not pay tithes to a church.
Nemo qui condemnare potest absolvere non potest
No one who can condemn is unable to acquit.
Nihil est magic rationi consentaneum quam eodem modo quodque dissolvere quo conflatum est
Nothing is more consonant to reason than that everything should be dissolved in the same way as it was made.
Nihil tam naturale est quam eo genere quidque dissolvere quo colligatum est
Nothing is so natural as that an obligation should be dissolved by the same principle by which it was contracted.
Nihil tam naturale est quam eo genere quidque dissolvere quo colligatum est, ideo verborum obligatio verbis tollitur; nudi consensus obligatio contrario consensu dissolvitur
Nothing is so natural as to dissolve anything in the way in which it was bound together; therefore the obligation of words is taken away by words; the obligation of mere consent is dissolved by the contrary consent.
Potestas suprema seipsum dissolvere potest, ligare non potest
Supreme power can dissolve (or release), but cannot bind, itself.
Qui ignorat quantum solvere debeat, non potest improbus videri
A person who does not know what he ought to pay cannot be regarded as dishonest.( Also in reverse order: Non potest improbus videri qui ignorat quantum solvere debeat. Dig. 50.17.99.
Solvendo esse nemo intelligitur nisi qui solidum potent solvere
No one is understood to be in a state of solvency except the one who can pay all that he owes. Dig. 50.16.114.
Solvere
vb. [Latin "to unbind"] Roman law. To pay (a debt); to release (a person) from an obligation.
concessit solvere
[Latin "he agreed to pay"] Hist. A form of debt action on a simple contract. ( The plaintiff alleged that the defendant had granted and agreed to pay to the plaintiff the sum sued for, but had not done so. The defendant responded with a plea of nunquam indebitatus ("never indebted"). See indebitatus assumpsit under ASSUMPSIT; NUNQUAM INDEBITATUS; COMMON COUNT.
solvere poenas
[Latin] Hist. To pay the penalty. solvit (sol-vit). [Latin] He paid; paid.