Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Authority coupled with an interest
authority given to an agent for valuable consideration. ( this authority cannot be unilaterally terminated by the principal.
Beaupleader
[law french "fair pleading"] hist. 1. A fine imposed for bad or unfair pleading. 2. A writ of prohibition that prevented a sheriff from taking a fine for bad pleading. ( the statute of marlbridge (1267) prohibited the taking of fines for this type of pleading. See writ of prohibition.
Duplieationem possibilitatis lex non patitur
The law does not allow a duplication of possibility.
Duply
See DUPLICATIO (1)
Jure naturae aequum esneminem cum alterius detrimento et injuria fieri locupletiorem
By the law of nature, it is just that no one should be enriched to the detriment and injury of another.
Le salut du peuple est la supreme loi
The safety of the people is the highest law.
Locuples
adj. [Latin] Civil law. Having the means to pay any amount that the plaintiff might recover. - Also termed locuplete.
Negatio duplex est aff rmatio
A double negative is an affirmative.
Nemo debet locupletari aliena jactura
No one ought to be enriched at another's expense.
Nemo debet locupletari ex alterius incommodo
No one ought to be enriched out of another's disadvantage.
Nobilitas est duplex, superior et inferior
There are two sorts of nobility, the higher and the lower.
Sensus verborum est duplex, mitis et asper, et verba semper accipienda sunt in mitiore sensu
The meaning of words is twofold, mild and harsh; and words are always to be received in their milder sense.
UPL
abbr. Unauthorized practice of law <the state bar's UPL committee>. See unauthorized practice of law under PRACTICE OF LAW.
accouple,
vb. Archaic. To unite; to marry.
agency coupled with an interest
An agency in which the agent is granted not only the power to act on behalf of a principal but al:. a legal interest in the estate or property in volved. see power coupled with an under power.
duplex querela
1. Hist. Eccles. law. An appeal by a clerk to the archbishop in response to the bishop's delaying or wrongfully refusing to do justice. ( It is a double quarrel in that sometimes the archbishop orders a judge considering parallel proceedings not to take any action against the complainant during the pendency of the suit. 2. Eccles. law. An appeal to a person's immediate superior, as when a bishop appeals to an archbishop. - Also termed double quarrel; double complaint.
duplex valor maritagii
n. [Law Latin "double the value of a marriage"] Hist. A ward's forfeiture of double the value of a marriage made without the guardian's consent. 0 In the quotation that follows, Blackstone uses the accusative form (duplicem valorem maritagii) because the phrase follows the verb forfeited. "For, while the infant was in ward, the guardian had the power of tendering him or her a suitable match, without disparagement, or inequality: which if the infants refused, they forfeited the value of the marriage ... to their guardian; that is, so much a
duplicate
n. 1. A reproduction of an original document having the same particulars and effect as the original. 2. A new original, made to replace an instrument that is lost or destroyed. - Also termed (in sense 2) duplicate original. - duplicate (d[y]oo-plikit) adj ."A 'duplicate' is defined for purposes of the best evidence rule as a counterpart produced by the same impression as the original, or from the same matrix, or by means of photography including enlargements and miniatures, by mechanical or electronic
duplicate will
A will executed in duplicate by a testator who retains one copy and gives the second copy to another person. ( The rules applicable to wills apply to both wills, and upon application for probate, both copies must be tendered into the registry of the probate court.
duplicatio
n. [fr. Latin duplicare "to double"] 1. Roman & civil law. A defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication, similar to a rejoinder in common law. -Also termed (in Scots law) duply. See REPLICATION. 2. The fourth in a series. 3. A duplication of a transaction.
duplicatum jus
n. [Law Latin "double right"] A double right, such as droit droit (both the "right of possession and right of property").
duplicitous
adj. 1. (Of a person) deceitful; double-dealing. 2. (Of a pleading, esp. an indictment) alleging two or more matters in one plea; characterized by double pleading.
duplicitous appeal
an appeal from two separate judgments, from a judgment and an order, or from two orders.
duplicitous indictment
The joining of two or more offenses in the same count of an indictment. - Also termed duplicitous information. joint indictment. An indictment that charges two or more people with an offense.
duplicitous information
See duplicitous indictment under INDICTMENT.
duplicity
n. 1. Deceitfulness; double-dealing. 2. The pleading of two or more distinct grounds of complaint or defense for the same issue. 0 In criminal law, this takes the form of joining two or more offenses in the same count of an indictment. - Also termed double pleading. Cf. alternative pleading under PLEADING (2); double plea under PLEA (3).
duplum
[Latin] Civil law. Double the price of something. Cf. SIMPLUM.
in duplo
adv. & adj. [Law Latin] Hist. In double. 0 This term appeared in phrases such as damna in duplo ("double damages"). - Also termed (in Roman law) in duplum.
jus duplicatum
See DROIT-DROIT.
license coupled with an interest
An irrevocable license conveyed with an interest in land or a chattel interest. ( An injunction may be obtained to prevent the wrongful revocation of such a license. - Also termed license coupled with the grant of an interest. mere licenseSee bare license.
license coupled with the grant of an interest
See license coupled with an interest under LICENSE.
ne unques accouple
n. [Law French "never married"] In a dower action by a widow to recover the estate of her deceased husband, a tenant's plea denying the woman's marriage to the decedent. See DOWER.
possibility coupled with an interest
An expectation recognized in law as an estate or interest, as occurs in an executory devise or in a shifting or springing use. ( This type of possibility may be sold or assigned.
power coupled with an interest
A power to do some act, conveyed along with an interest in the subject matter of the power. ( A power coupled with an interest is not held for the benefit of the principal, and it is irrevocable due to the agent's interest in the subject property. For this reason, some authorities assert that it is not a true agency power. -Also termed power given as security; proprietary power. Cf. naked power. "[Sluppose that the principal borrows money from the agent and by way of security authorizes the agent to sell Blackacre if the loan is not repaid and pay himself out of the proceeds. In such case there is no more reason why the principal should be permitted to revoke than if he had formally conveyed or mortgaged Blackacre to the agent. Hence it would be highly unfair to the agent to allow his principal to revoke. The reason why such a case is not properly governed by the considerations usually making an agency revocable is that this is in reality not a case of agency at all. In a normal agency case the power is conferred upon the agent to enable him to do something for the principal while here it is given to him to enable him to do something for himself. Coupled with an interest means that the agent must have a present interest in the property upon which the power is to operate." Harold Gill Reuschlein & William A. Gregory, The Law of Agency and Partnership ยง 47, at 99 (1990).
power of attorney coupled with an interest
See irrevocable power of attorney.
quadruplator
n. [Latin] Roman law. An informer who, by law, could institute criminal proceedings that would result in a fourfold penalty and then receive a reward for doing so. Pl. quadruplatores (kwah-drapla-tor-eez).
quadruplicatio
n. [fr. Latin quadruplicatus "quadrupled"] Civil law. A defendant's pleading, following the triplicatio and similar to the rebutter at common law; the third defensive pleading. - Also termed quadruplication; (in old Scots law) quadruply.