Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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

Quod demonstrandi causa additur rei satin demonstratae, frustra fit

What is added for the sake of demonstration to a thing sufficiently demonstrated is done to no purpose.

Strand

n. A shore or bank of an ocean, lake, river, or stream.

Stranding

n. Maritime law. A ship's drifting, driving, or running aground on a strand.

accidental stranding

Stranding as a result of natural forces, as in wind and waves. ( The type of stranding that occurs determines the method of apportioning the liability for any resulting losses. See general average and special average under AVERAGE. - Also termed involuntary stranding. "Damage to a vessel from involuntary stranding or wreck, and the cost of repairs, are particular average only. Where, however, the ship and cargo are exposed to a common peril by the accidental stranding, the expenses of unloading and taking care of the cargo, rescuing the vessel, reloading the cargo, and other expenses other than repairs requisite to enable the vessel to proceed on the voyage, are brought into general average, provided the vessel and cargo were saved by the same series of measures during the continuance of the common peril which created the joint necessity for the expenses." 70 Am. Jur. 2d Shipping ยง 961, at 1069 (1987).

involuntary stranding

See accidental stranding under STRANDING.

quod erat demonstrandum

See Q.E.D.

voluntary stranding

See STRANDING.