Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Leges vigilantibus, non dormientibus subveniunt
The laws aid those who keep watch, not those who sleep (that is, the vigilant, not the negligent).
Lex vigilantibus, non dormientibus, subvenit
Law aids the watchful, not the sleeping.
Vigil
Eccles. law The day before any solemn feast.
Vigilance
. Watchfulness; precaution; a proper degree of activity and promptness in pursuing one's rights, in guarding them from infraction, and in discovering opportunities for enforcing one's lawful claims and demands.
Vigilant
adj. Watchful and cautious; on the alert; attentive to discover and avoid danger.
Vigilantibus et non dormientibus jura subveniunt
The laws aid the vigilant, not those who sleep.
novigild
n. [fr. Latin novem "nine" + Anglo-Saxon gid or geld "a payment"] Hist. The money a person must pay for damaging another person's property, the amount equaling nine times the purchase price of the property damaged.
praefectus vigilium
n. [Latin "prefect of the watch"] Roman law. An officer with police and fire-prevention duties. ( This officer had the authority to punish offenses relating to the public peace.
vigilante
A person who seeks to avenge a crime by taking the law into his or her own hands.
vigilantism
The act of a citizen who takes the law into his or her own hands by apprehending and punishing suspected criminals.