Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
ambiguity
n. an uncertainty of meaning or intention, as in a contractual term or statutory provision. - ambiguous (am-big-yoo-as), adj.
ambiguity doctrine
see contra proferentum.
ambiguity on the factum
an ambiguity relating to the foundation of an instrument, such as a question relating to whether a testator intended for a particular clause to be part of an agreement, whether a codicil was intended to republish a former will, or whether the residuary clause was accidentally omitted.
extrinsic ambiguity
See latent ambiguity under AMBIGUITY.
intrinsic ambiguity
See patent ambiguity under AMBIGUITY.
latent ambiguity
an ambiguity that does not readily appear in the language of a document, but instead arises from a collateral matter when the document's terms are applied or executed <the contract contained a latent ambiguity because the shipping terms stated that the goods would arrive on the ship peerless, but two ships have that name>. -also termed extrinsic ambiguity; equivocation; ambiguitas lateens
patent ambiguity
an ambiguity that clearly appears on the face of a document, arising from the language itself <the nonperformance was excused because the two different prices expressed in the contract created a patent ambiguity>. - also termed intrinsic ambiguity; ambiguitas patens.