Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Favorabiliores sunt executiones aliis processibus quibuscunque
Executions are preferred to all other processes whatever.
Huscarle
n. [Old English] Hist. 1. A house servant or domestic; a man of the household. 2. A king's vassal, thane, or baron; an earl's man or vassal.
Manuscript
An unpublished writing; an author's typescript or written work product that is proposed for publication.
Res generalem habet signiicationem, quia tam corporea, quam incorporea, cuJuscunque sunt generis naturae sive speciei, comprehendit
The word "things" has a general signification, because it comprehends corporeal as well as incorporeal objects, of whatever sort, nature, or species.
USC
abbr. UNITED STATES CODE.
USCA
abbr. UNITED STATES CODE ANNOTATED.
Uniuscujusque contractus initium spectan dum est et causa
The beginning and cause cr each and every contract must be considered
dified as supplemental jurisdiction. 28 USCA § 1367. - Also termed pendent-claim jurisdiction. See supplemental jurisdiction. Cf. ancillary jurisdiction.
enacted to punish polygamy. 48 USCA § 1480a. - Sometimes shortened to Edmunds Act. educational expense.
See EXPENSE
exceptio senatusconsulti Macedoniani
A defense to an action for the recovery of money loaned, on the ground that the loan was made to a minor or a person under another person's paternal power. ( This defense is so named from the decree of the senate that forbade the recovery of such loans.
exceptio senatusconsulti Velleiani
A defense to an action on a contract of suretyship, on the ground that the surety was a woman and thus incapable of becoming bound for another. ( This defense is so named from the decree of the senate forbidding such sureties.
manuscript policy
An insurance policy containing nonstandard provisions that have been negotiated between the insurer and the insured.
post prolem suscitatam
[Law Latin] After issue born.
susceptibility
See SUBJECTION (3).