Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
La ley voit plus tost suffer un mischiefe que un inconvenience
The law will sooner suffer a mischief than an inconvenience.
Suffer
ub 1.To experience or sustain physical or emotional pain, distress, or injury <suffer grievously>< suffer damages>. 2. To allow or permit (an act, etc.) <to suffer a default>.
Sufferance
1 Toleration; passive consent. 2. The state of one who holds land without the owner's permission. See tenancy at sufferance under TENANCY. 3. A license implied from the omission to enforce a right.
estate at sufferance
See tenancy at sufferanc under TENANCY.
mental suffering
See EMOTIONAL DISTRESS.
pain and suffering
Physical discomfort or emotional distress compensable as an element of damages in torts. See DAMAGES.
sufferance wharves
Hist. English law. Wharves designated by the Commissioner of the Customs to receive goods before any duties must be paid.
sufferentia pacis
n. [Latin] A grant of peace; a truce; an armistice.
suffering a recovery
Hist. A conveyor's act of allowing, for the purposes of a conveyance, a fictitious action to be brought by the conveyee and a judgment to be recovered for the land in question.
tenancy at sufferance
See TENANCY.