Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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Praescriptio et executio non pertinent ad valorem contractus, sed ad tempus et modum actionis instituendae
Prescription and execution do not affect the validity of the contract, but affect the time and manner of bringing an action.
Quod sub certa forma concessum vel reservatum est, non trahitur ad valorem vel compensationem
That which has been granted or reserved under a certain form is not to be drawn into valuation or compensation.
Valor
n. [Latin] Hist. Value; worth; rate; a valuation. - Also spelled valour. See AD VALOREM.
ad valorem
adj. [latin "according to the value"] (of a tax) proportional to the value of the thing taxed. - ad valorem, adu.
ad valorem tax.
see tax.
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
valor beneficiorum
[Law Latin] Hist. The value of all ecclesi;.3stipal henefices and. spiritual preferments.
valor maritagii
[Latin] Hist. The value of a marriage. ( Under ancient tenures, this was the amount that a female ward forfeited to a guardian when the guardian had offered her a marriage without disparagement (inequality), and she refused. In feudal law, the guardian in chivalry had the right of tendering to a minor ward a suitable match, without disparagement. If the ward refused, she forfeited the value of the marriagr (valor maritagii) to the guardian. - Als( termed (in the accusative) valorem maritagiV (Scots law) avail of marriage "If an infant ward of a guardian in chivalry refused a match tendered by the guardian, he or she forfeited tht value of the marriage (valorem maritagii) to the guardian; that is, so much as a jury would assess, or any one would bona fide give to the guardian for such an alli ance." 2 Alexander M. Burrill Glossary 572-73 (2d ed. 1867