Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.

Aequitas agit in personam

Equity acts upon the person.

Aequitas est correctio legis generaliter latae qua parte deficit

Equity is the correction of some part of the law where by reason of its generality it is defective.

Aequitas ignorantiae opitulatur, oscitantiae non item

Equity assists ignorance but not complacency (or carelessness).

Aequitas non facit jus, sed juri auxiliatur

Equity does not create a right, but aids the right.

Aequitas sequitur legem

Equity follows the law.

Aequitas supervacua odit

Equity abhors superfluous things.

In fictione juris semper aequitas existit.

In a fiction of law there is always equity. 0 A legal fiction is always consistent with equity.

In fictione juris semper subsistit aequitas.

In a legal fiction equity always abides (or prevails).

In omnibus quidem, maxime tamen injure, aequitas spectanda sit

In all affairs indeed, but especially in those that concern the administration of justice, equity should be regarded.

Lex fingit ubi subsistit aequitas

Law creates a fiction where equity abides.

Ratio injure aequitas integra

Reason in law is perfect equity.

Si aliquid ex solemnibus deficiat, cum aequitas poscit subveniendum est

If anything is lacking from formal requirements, when equity requires, it will be supplied.

aequitas

n. [latin] roman law. equity, as opposed to jus strictum or jus summum.