Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Aliud est vendere, aliud vendenti consen. Tire
To sell is one thing to give consent. to the seller another.
Ballivo amovendo
[latin "a bailiff to be removed"] hist. A writ to remove from office a bailiff who does not have sufficient land in the bailiwick as required by the statute of westminster (1285).
Caveat venditor
Let the seller beware.
Cavendum est a fragmentis
Beware of fragments.
Cui jus est donandi eidem et vendendi et concedendi jus est
A person who has a right to give has also a right to sell and to grant.
Ea quae commendandi causa in venditionibus dicuntur, si palam appareant venditorem non obligant.
Those things that, by way of commendation, are stated at sales, if they are openly apparent, do not hind they are openly apparent do not bind the seller.
Ecclesiae magis favendum est quam personae
The church is to be more favored than the parson (or an individual).
Emptor emit quam minimo potest; venditor vendit quam maximo potest
The buyer buys for as little as possible; the vendor sells for as much as possible.
In contrahenda venditione, ambiguum pactum contra venditorem interpretandum est
In the contract of sale, an ambiguous agreement is to be interpreted against the seller.
In pretio emptionis et venditionis naturaliter licet contrahentibus se circumvenire.
In setting the price for buying and selling, it is naturally allowed to the contracting parties to get the better of each other.
Jus vendit quod usus approbavit
The law dispenses what use has approved.
Merx est quidquid vendi potest
Merchandise is whatever can be sold.
Nemo cogitur rem suam vendere, etiam justo pretio
No one is bound to sell his property, even for a just price.
Non dubitatur, etsi specialiter venditor evictionem non promiserit, re evicta, ex empto competere actionem
It is certain that even if the vendor has not given a special guarantee, an action ex empto lies against him, if the purchaser is evicted.
Nulli vendemus, nulli negabimus, aut differemus rectum vel justitiam
We shall sell to no one, deny to no one, or delay to no one, equity or justice.
Oportet quod certa sit res quae venditur
A thing, to be sold, must be definite.
Periculum rei venditae, nondum traditae, est emptoris
The purchaser assumes the risk for a thing sold, but not yet delivered.
Qui habet jurisdictionem absolvendi, habet jurisdictionem ligandi
One who has jurisdiction for dissolving (an obligation) has jurisdiction to bind.
Quidquid enim sive dolo et culpa venditoris accidit in eo venditor securus est
For concerning anything that occurs without deceit and guilt on the part of the vendor, the vendor is secure.
Si quis custos fraudem pupillo fecerit, a tutela removendus est
If a guardian commits fraud against his ward, he is to be removed from the guardianship.
Sive tota res evincatur, sive pars, habet regressum emptor in venditorem
If the property is taken from him by eviction, whether whole or in part, the purchaser has an action against the vendor. Dig. 21.2.1.
Solvendo esse nemo intelligitur nisi qui solidum potent solvere
No one is understood to be in a state of solvency except the one who can pay all that he owes. Dig. 50.16.114.
Tantum bona valent, quantum vendi possunt
Things are worth as much as they can be sold for.
Vend
vb. 1. To transfer to another for money or other thing of value. ( The term is not commonly applied to real estate, although its derivatives (vendor and vendee) are. 2. To make an object of trade, especially by hawking or peddling. 3. To utter publicly; to say or state; to publish broadly.
Vendee
A purchaser, usu. of real property; a buyer.
Vendens eandem rem duobus falsarius est
A vendor is fraudulent if he sells the same thing to two (separate) buyers.
Vendible
adj. Sellable; fit or suitable to be sold.
Venditrix
, n. Hist. A female vendor.
Vendor
A seller, usu. of real property. - Also termed venditor.
actio venditi
An action by which a seller could enforce a contract of sale.
actio venditi.
See ACTIO.
caveat venditor
[Latin] Let the seller beware.
custode amovendo
See DE CUSTODE AMOVENDO.
de custode amovendo
n. [Law Latin "of removing a guardian"] Hist. A writ to remove a guardian.
de vi laica amovenda
n. [Law Latin "of removing a lay force"] Hist. A writ allowing a parson claiming rights to a church to order a sheriff to remove a group of laymen who had gathered with another parson at the church and prevented the new parson from entering.
debitum in praesenti solvendum in futuro
[Latin] A present debt (or obligation) to be paid at a future time; a debt or obligation complete when contracted, but of which the performance cannot be required until some future period.
emptio et venditio
[Latin "purchase and sale"] A contract of sale. -Also termed emptio venditio. See VENDITIO.
emptio venditio
See emptio et venditio.
exceptio rei venditae et traditae
An exception or plea of the sale and delivery [of a thing]. ( This exception presumes a valid sale but, because no one can transfer a right greater than what is possessed, no valid transfer of property occurred, yet the real owner is nonetheless estopped from contesting the sale.
itinerant vendor
A vendor who travels from place to place selling goods.
itinerate vendor
See VENDOR.
leproso amovendo
n. [Latin "for removing a leper"] Hist. A writ to remove a leper who participated in public gatherings, such as church or meetings.
magister bonorum vendendorum
n. [Law Latin "master for sale of goods"] Roman law. A master appointed by the creditors of an insolvent debtor to direct the sale of the debtor's property.
modus vivendi
[Latin "means of living (together)"] Int'l law. A temporary, provisional arrangement concluded between subjects of international law and giving rise to binding obligations on the parties
revendication,
n. 1. The recovery or claiming back of something by. a formal claim or demand. 2. Civil law. An action to recover rights in and possession of property that is wrongfully held by another. ( This is analogous to the common-law replevin. - revendicate, ub.
solvendo esse
[Latin] Hist. To be solvent; to be able to pay an obligation.
solvendum in futuro
[Latin "to be paid in the future"] Hist. (Of a debt) due now but payable in the future.
vend. ex.
abbr. VENDITIONI EXPONAS.
vendee's lien
Real estate. A buyer's lien on the purchased land as security for repayment of purchase money paid in, enforceable if the seller does not or cannot convey good title.
vendetta
, n. A private blood feud in which family members seek revenge on a person outside the family (often members of another family); esp., a private war in which the nearest of kin seek revenge for the slaying of a relative.