Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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

Aliena negotia exacto officio geruntur

The business of another is conducted with scrupulous attention.

Alienatio licet prohibeatur, consensu tamen omnium in quorum favorem prohibita esl potest fieri; et quilibet potest renunciare juri pro se introducto

Even if alienation is prohibited, it may yet take place by the consent of all in whose favor it is prohibited; it is in the power of anyone to renounce a right introduced for his own benefit.

Alienatio rei praefertur juri accrescendi

Alienation of property is favored over the right to accumulate.

Arresto facto super bonis mercatorum alienigenorum

[latin "seizure of the goods of foreign merchants"] hist. A writ to seize the goods of an alien, taken in recompense of goods taken from an english subject living abroad.

Caveat emptor qui ignorare non debuit quod jus alienum emit

Let the buyer beware; for he ought not act in ignorance when he buys what another has right to.

Contrectatio rei alienae animo furandi est furtum

Touching or taking another's property with an intention of stealing is theft.

Furtum est contrectatio rei alienae fraudulenta, cum animo furandi, invito illo domino cujus res illa fuerat

Theft is the fraudulent handling of another's property, with an intention of stealing, against the will of the proprietor, whose property it had been.

In suo quisque negotio hebetior est quam in alieno.

Everyone is less perceptive (of flaws) in his own business than in that of another.

Inalienable

adj. Not transferable or assignable <inalienable property interests>. - Also termed unalienable.

Incendium aere alieno non exuit debitorem.

A fire does not release a debtor from his debt.

Iniquum est ingenuis hominibus non esse liberam rerum suarum alienationem.

It is unjust for freeborn individuals not to have the free disposal of their own property.

Nemo alienae rei, sine satisdatione, defensor idoneus intelligitur

No one is considered a competent defender of another's property, without security.

Nemo alieno nomine lege agere potest. No

one can sue at law in the name of another.

Nemo debet immiscere se rei alienae ad se nihil pertinenti

No one should interfere in another's business that does not at all concern him.

Nemo debet locupletari aliena jactura

No one ought to be enriched at another's expense.

Nemo plus juris ad alienum transferre potent quam ipse haberet

No one can transfer to another a greater right than he himself might have. Dig. 50.17.54.

Nemo praesumitur alienam posteritatem suae praetulisse

No one is presumed to have preferred another's posterity to his own.

Nemo punitur pro alieno delicto

No one is punished for the crime or wrong of another.

Nullus jus alienum forisfacere potest

No one can forfeit another's right.

Prohibetur ne quis faciat in suo quod nocere possit alieno

It is prohibited for anyone to do on his own property what may injure another's.

Qui non habet potestatem alienandi habet necessitatem retinendi

A person who has not the power of alienating is obliged to retain.

Regulariter non valet pactum de re mea non alienanda

As a rule, a contract not to alienate my property is not binding.

Respondeat raptor, qui ignorare non potuit quod pupillum alienum abduxit

Let the ravisher answer, for he could not be ignorant that he has taken away another's ward.

Sic utere tuo ut alienum non laedas

So use your own as not to injure another's property.

Unalienable

adj. See INALIENABLE.

Videtur qui surdus et mutus ne poet faire alienation

A deaf and mute person is considered not to be able to alienate.

abalienation

n. [fr. Latin abalienare "to alienate"] Civil law. The transfer of an interest or title in property; ALIENATION (2). 9 In Roman law, the term was abalienatio ("a perfect conveyance from one Roman citizen to another"), which was anglicized to abalienation. - abalienate, vb.

aes alienum

n. [latin "another's money"] roman law. money owed to another; borrowed money.

alien

ub. see alienati

alien ami

see alien friend under alien.

alien amy.

see alien friend.

alien and sedition acts

hist. four statutes passed in 1798 designed to silence critics of the federalist party by tightening residency requirements for citizenship, granting to the president the power to jail aliens considered dangerous to the country, and restricting freedoms of the press and speech by criminalizing speech hostile to the government. 0 all the acts had expired or been repealed by 1802.

alien corporation

See foreign corporation.

alien enemy

See ALIEN.

alien friend.

an alien who is a citizen or subject of a friendly power. - also termed (in law french) alien amy; alien ami.

alien immigrant

An immigrant who has not yet been naturalized.

alienable

adj. capable of

alienage

n. the condition or status of being an alien.

alienate

ub. to transfer or convey (property or a property right) to another. - also termed alien.

alienation

withdrawal from former attachment; estrangement <alienation of affections>. 2. conveyance or transfer of property to another <alienation of one's estate>. -

alienation clause

a deed provision that either permits or prohibits the further conveyance of the property. 2. a clause in an insurance policy voiding coverage if the policyholder alienates the insured property.

alienation of affections

a tort claim for willful or malicious interference with a marriage by a third party without justification or excuse. ( the tort has been abolished in most states. see consortium.

alienation office

English law.' An office for the recovery of fines levied upon writs of covenant and entries.

alienative

adj"[alny transfer of real estate short of a conveyance of the title is not an alienation of the estate." 4a john alan appleman & jean appleman, insurance law and practice ยง 2741, at 325 n.12 (rev. vol. 1969).

alienative fact

A fact that divests a person of a right by transferring it to another.

alienee

one to whom property is transferred or conveyed. -also termed disponee.

alieni generis

[latin[ of another kind; of a foreign kind.

alieni juris

adj. [latin] roman law. subject to the power or authority of another. - also spelled alieni iur-is

alienigena

jlatinl hist. an alien. cf. indigena.

alienism

the state, condition, or character of an alien.