Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Noxa caput sequitur
The injury follows the head or person.( Liability to make good an injury caused by a slave attaches to the master. Dig. 2.14.7.4.
caput
[Latin "head"] 1. Hist. A head, chief, or principal person. 2. Roman law. A person. 3. Roman law. A person's condition or status."A 'natural,' as opposed to an 'artificial,' person is such a human being as is regarded by the law as capable of rights or duties: in the language of Roman law as having a 'status.' . . . Besides possessing this general legal capacity, or status, a man may also possess various special capacities, such as the tria capita of liberty, citizenship, and family rights. A slave having, as such, neither rights nor liabilities, had in Roman law, strictly speaking, no status, caput, or persona. .. . It must however be remembered that the terms persona and caput were also used in popular language as nearly equivalent to homo, and in this sense were applied to slaves as well as to freemen." Thomas E. Holland, The Elements of Jurisprudence 8081 (4th ed. 1888).
caput comitatus
[Latin "head of the county"] Hist. The head of a county; a sheriff.
caput gerat lupinum
[Latin "let him bear the head of a wolf"] Hist. An outlawed felon considered a pariah -a lone wolf - open to attack by anyone. See OUTLAWRY."He who breaks the law has gone to war with the community; the community goes to war with him. It is the right and duty of every man to pursue him, to ravage his land, to burn his house, to hunt him down like a wild beast and slay him; for a wild beast he is; not merely is he a 'friendless man,' he is a wolf .... Caput gerat lupinum - in these words the court decreed outlawry." 2 Frederick Pollock & Frederic W. Maitland, The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward 1 449 (2d ed. 1899).