Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Clam delinquens magis punitur quam palam
A person who does wrong secretly is punished more severely than one who acts openly. 8 Coke 127.
Clam factum id videtur esse, quod quisque, quum controversiam haberet, habiturumve se putaret, fecit
That is considered done secretly which someone did when he had a legal dispute or thought he would have one.
Clamor
1. Hist. A lawsuit; a claim. 2. HITE AND CRY (1). 3. Civil law. A claimant. 4. Ciud laic. The thing claimed from another.
Fama, quae suspicionem inducit, oriri debet apud bonos et graves, non quidem malevolos et maledicos, sed providas et fide dignas personas, non semel sed saepius, quia clamor minuit et defamatio manife
Report, which induces suspicion, ought to arise from good and grave men; not, indeed, from malevolent and malicious men, but from cautious and credible persons; not only once, but frequently, for clamor diminishes, and defamation manifests.
Proclamation
A formal public announcement made by the government.
Proclamator
Hist. An official at the English Court of Common Pleas responsible for making proclamations.
Vitium est quod fugi debet, ne, si rationem non invenias, mox legem sine ratione esse clames
It is a fault that ought to be avoided, that if you do not discover the reason, you quickly exclaim that the law is without reason.
clam
adu. [Latin] Civil law. Secretly; covertly. ( Under Roman law, an act (such as occupying or altering the condition of someone else's property) was committed clam when it was done with the intent to conceal it in an effort to avoid liability. See INTERDICTUM QUOD VI ALIT CLAM.
clamea admittenda in itinere per attorna. tum
[Latin "claim to be admitted at the eyre by an attorney"] Hist. A writ from the king commanding the justices in eyre to permit by attorney the claim of a person employed in the king's service who cannot attend court in person.
clameur de haro
[French] An outcry recognized in the Channel Islands as a protest against trespass to land. ( The clameur de haro is a legal remnant of when the Duchy of Normandy held the islands before England took control in the 13th century. The victim's cry of haro (repeated 3 times) is popularly supposed to be an abbreviation of Ha Rollo, the first Duke of Normandy. The full cry, Haro, Haro Haro, a l'aide, mon prince, on me fait tort, when registered at the local records office, enjoins the offender from possessing the land. See HARD; HUE AND CRY; GRAND COfTL MIER DE PAYS ET DUCH2 DE NORMANME.
emancipation proclamation
An executive proclamation, issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, declaring that all persons held in slavery in certain designated states and districts were freed.
hutesium et clamor
[Law Latin] HUE AND CRY.
interdictum quod vi aut clam
[Latin "interdict because of force or stealth"] Roman law. An interdict issued against a person who forcibly (vi) or secretly (clam) altered the claimant's property. ( The interdict required the defendant to restore the property to its previous condition.
neutrality proclamation
Int'l law. At the outbreak of a war between two nations, an announcement by the President that the United States is neutral and that its citizens may not violate the neutrality laws, as in the Neutrality Proclamation of 1793, issued during the war between France and Great Britain.
pro falso clamore suo
[Latin "for his false claim"] A nominal amercement of a plaintiff for a false allegation, inserted in a judgment for the defendant.
proclamation by lord of manor
Hist. A proclamation (repeated three times) made by the lord of a manor requiring an heir or devisee of a deceased copyholder to pay a fine and be admitted to the estate, failing which the lord could seize the lands provisionally.
proclamation of exigents
Hist. Repeated proclamations by the sheriff of an imminent outlawing of a person in the county where the person lived. See EXIGENT.
proclamation of rebellion
Hist. A proclamation made by the sheriff, warning a person who failed to obey a Chancery subpoena or attachment that a commission of rebellion would issue if the person continued to resist the Chancery process. See COMMISSION OF REBELLION.
proclamation of recusants
Hist. A proclamation by which persons who willfully absented themselves from church could be convicted on nonappearance at the assizes.
quiete clamantia
n. [Law Latin] Hist. Quitclaim.
quiete clamare
ub. [Law Latin] Hist. To quitclaim or renounce all pretensions of right and title.
reclamation
n. 1. The act or an instance of improving the value of economically useless land by physically changing the land, such as irrigating a desert. 2. Commercial law. A seller's limited right to retrieve goods delivered to a buyer when the buyer is insolvent. UCC ยง 2-702(2). 3. The act or an instance of obtaining valuable materials from waste materials. - reclaim, ub.
vi aut clam
, adv. [Latin] By force or covertly.
writ of proclamation
Hist. A writ, issued at the time an exigent was issued, ordering the sheriff of the county of a defendant's residence to make three proclamations of outlawry in a public and notorious place a month before the outlawry is declared. See OUTLAW.