Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Carta Mercatoria
Hist. An English statute (enacted in 1303) establishing various rules that favored certainforeign merchants. ( In exchange for paying customs duties, merchants received extensive trading rights throughout England, the power to export their merchandise, the liberty to dwell where they pleased, and certain legal rights. - Also termed Statutum de Nova Custuma. cart-bote. See plowbote under BOTE (1
Imperitia est maxima mechanicorum poena.
Unskillfulness is the greatest punishment of mechanics (i.e., from its effect in making them liable to those by whom they are employed).
Mentiri est contra mentem ire
To lie is to go against the mind.
Verba mere aequivoca, si per communern usum loquendi in intellectu certo sumun tur, talis intellectus praeferendus est
When words are purely equivocal, if by con mon usage of speech they are taken in a ce-a ~: meaning, such meaning is to be preferred.
a me
[latin] from me. ( this phrase was used in feudal grants to denote tenure held directly of the chief lord. the phrase is short for a me de superiore meo (ay mee dee s[y]oopeer-ee-or-ee mee-oh), meaning "from me of my superior." cf. de me.
a mensa et thoro
[latin "from board and hearth"] (of a divorce decree) effecting a separation of the parties rather than a dissolution of the marriage <a separation a mensa et thoro was the usual way for a couple to separate under english law up until 1857>. see divorce a menso et thoro under divorce; separation; a vinulo matrimonii.
bona memoria
[Latin] Good memory. Bona memoria, as used in the phrase sanae mentis et bonae mernoria (of sound mind and good memory), refers to a testator's mental capacity. See MIND AND MEMORY.
divorce a mensa et thoro
[Latin "(divorce) from board and bed"] A partial or qualified divorce by which the parties are separated and forbidden to live or cohabit together, without affecting the marriage itself. ( This type of divorce, abolished in England in 1857, was the forerunner of modern judicial separation. - Also termed separation a mensa et thoro; separation from bed and board "[The Ecclesiastical Courts] grant also what is called a divorce a mensa et thoro, or rather what we should call a judicial separation, i.e. they release the parties from the duty of living together on grounds of cruelty or misconduct .... " William Geld
en ventre sa mere
[Law French "in utero"] (Of a fetus) in the mother's womb <child en ventre sa mere>. ( This phrase refers to an unborn child, usu. in the context of a discussion of that child's rights. - Also spelled in ventre sa mere. See VENTER. "An infant in ventre so mere, or in the mother's womb, is supposed in law to be born for many purposes." 1 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 126 (1765).
gilda mercatoria
[Law Latin] Hist. A merchant guild; an incorporated society of merchants having exclusive trading rights within a town.
in ventre sa mere
See EN VENTRE SA MERE.
separation a mensa et thoro
See divorce a mensa et thoro under DIVORCE.