Dictionary Search: "cant" - Pakistan Law Portal

Acta exteriora indicant interiora secreta

Outward acts indicate the thoughts hidden within.

Arches court of canterbury

see court of arches.

Court of Canterbury

See COURT OF ARCHES.

Excommunicant

n. Eccles. law. 1. An excommunicated person. 2. Rare. An excommunicator.

Intoxicant

n. A substance (esp. liquor) that deprives a person of the ordinary use of the senses or of reason.

Libertinum ingratum leges civiles in pristinam servitutem redignunt; sed leges Angliae semel manumissum semper liberum judicant

The civil laws reduce an ungrateful freedman to his original slavery; but the laws of England regard a person once manumitted as ever after free.

Mercantile Law Amendment Acts

The Mercantile Law Amendment Act of 1856 (19 & 20 Vict., chs. 60, 97) and the Mercantile Law Amendment Act (Scotland) of 1856, passed primarily to reconcile parts of the mercantile laws of England, Scotland, and Ireland.

Monetandi jus comprehenditur in regalibus quae nunquam a regio sceptro abdicantur

The right of coining is included among those rights of royalty that are never relinquished by the kingly scepter.

Quaecunque intra rationem legis inveniuntur, intra legem ipsam esse judicantur

Whatever appears within the reason of the law is considered within the law itself.

Respiciendum est judicanti nequid aut durius aut remissius constituatur quam causes deposcit; nec enim aut severitatis aut clementiae gloria affectanda est

The person judging must see to it that nothing should be either more severely or more leniently construed than the cause itself demands; neither for severity nor clemency is glory to be sought after.

Toxicant

n. A poison; a toxic agent; any substance capable of producing toxication or poisoning.

Vacant

adj. 1. Empty; unoccupied <a vacant office>. ( Courts have sometimes distinguished vacant from unoccupied, holding that vacant means completely empty while unoccupied means not routinely characterized by the presence of human beings. 2. Absolutely free, unclaimed, and unoccupied <vacant land>. 3. (Of an estate) abandoned; having no heir or claimant. - The term implies either abandonment or nonoccupancy for any purpose.

Vacantia

See bona vacantia under BONA.

Verba offendi possunt, imo ab eis recedere licet, ut verba ad sanum intellectum reducantur

The words can be faulted-indeed, it is permitted to depart from them, in order that the words may be restored to a sensible meaning.

Verbum imperfecti temporis rem adhuc imperfectam significant

The verb in the imperfect tense indicates a matter as yet incomplete.

applicant

1. one who requests something; a petitioner, such as a person who applies for letters of administration. 2. account party.

bona vacantia

[Latin "vacant goods"] 1. Property not disposed of by a decedent's will and to which no relative is entitled under intestacy laws. See ESCHEAT. 2. Ownerless property; goods without an owner. Bona vacantia often resulted when a deceased person died without an heir willing and able to make a claim. The property either belonged to the finder or escheated to the Crown. - Also termed uacantia bona. - Sometimes shortened to vacantia.

bona vacantia.

See BONA.

cant

(kant). Civil law. A method of dividing commonly held property by awarding it to the highest-bidding owner on condition that the successful bidder must buy out each coowner's interest also termed licitation

cantred

[fr. Welsh cant "hundred' + tref "village"] See HUNDRED.

label-and-significant-characteristics test

Securities. The rule that an instrument will be governed by the securities laws if it is labeled a stock and has the significant characteristics typically associated with shares of stock.

mercantile

, adj. Of or relating to merchants or trading; commercial <the mercantile system>.

mercantile agent

an agent employed to sell goods or merchandise on behalf of the principal

mercantile law

See COMMERCIAL LAW (1).

mercantile paper

See commercial paper (1) under PAPER.

most-significant-relationship test

Conflict of laws. The doctrine that, to determine the state law to apply to a dispute, the court should determine which state has the most substantial connection to the occurrence and the parties. ( For example, in a tort case, the court should consider where the injury occurred, where the conduct that caused the injury occurred, the residence, place of business, or place of incorporation of the parties, and the place where the relationship between the parties, if any, is centered. Restatement (Second) of Conflict of Laws § 145 (1971). In a case involving a contract, the court should consider where the contract was made, where the contract was negotiated, where the contract was to be performed, and the domicile, place of business, or place of incorporation of the parties. Id. § 188.

recant

vb. 1. To withdraw or renounce (prior statements or testimony) formally or publicly <the prosecution hoped the eyewitness wouldn't recant her corroborating testimony on the stand>. 2. To withdraw or renounce prior statements or testimony formally or publicly <under grueling cross-examination, the witness recanted>. - recantation, n.

significant-relationship theory

See CENTEROF-GRAVITY DOCTRINE.

vacant succession

Civil law. 1. A succession that fails either because there are no known heirs or because the heirs have renounced the estate. 2. An estate that has suffered such a failure. 3. The right by which one group, in replacing another group, acquires all the goods, movables, and other chattels of a corporation. 4. The continuation of a corporation's legal status despite changes in ownership or management. - Also termed artificial succession. -successor, n.

vacantia bona