Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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

Casus omissus et oblivioni datus dispositions communis juris relinquitur

A case omitted and forgotten (not provided for in statute) is left to the disposal of the common law.

Casus omissus pro omisso habendus est

A case omitted is to be held as (intentionally) omitted.

casus omissus

[Latin "case omitted"] A situation not provided for by a statute or contract, and therefore governed by caselaw or new judge-made law. Pl. casus omissi "At times a state of war appears to exist between the courts and the parliamentary draftsman. The courts decline to come to the rescue when a casus omissus is revealed, so words appropriate to cover the casus omissus are added to the statute. More frequently