Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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

In casu extremae necessitatis omnia runt communia.

In a case of extreme necessity, everything is in common.

communia

[Latin] Hist. Things owned in common, such as running water, the air, and the sea.

communia placita non tenenda in scaccario

[Law Latin "common pleas are not held in the Exchequer"] Hist. A writ directed to the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer, forbidding them from holding pleas between common persons, i.e., pleas in which the Crown was not a party.

hospitia communia

Common inns. hospitia curiae (kyoor-ee-I). Inns of court.

placita communia

[Latin] Common pleas; civil actions between subject and subject.