Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Error nominis nunquam nocet, si de identitate rei constat
Mistake in the name never injures if the identity of the thing is certain.
Falsa demonstratio non nocet, cum de corpore (persona) constat
False description does not injure or vitiate, provided the thing or person intended has once been sufficiently described. ( Mere false description does not make an instrument inoperative.
Fructus perceptos villae non esse constat
It is agreed that gathered fruits are not a part of the farm.
Id perfectum est quod ex omnibus suis partibus constat
That is perfect which is complete in all its parts.
In re pari potiorem causam esse prohibentis constat
Where the parties have gqual rights (in common property), it is an established principle that the one prohibiting has the stronger cause. Dig. 10.3.28.
Nihil facit error nominis cum de corpore constat
An error in the name is nothing when there is certainty as to the person.
Nil facit error nominis cum de corpore vel persona constat
An error in the name is immaterial when the body or person is certain.
Quod constat clare, non debet verificari
What is clearly agreed need not be proved.
Quod constat curiae, opere testium non indiget
What appears true to the court needs not the help of witnesses.
Si quidem in nomine, cognomine, praenomine, agnomine legatarii testator erraverit, cum de persona constat, nihilominus valet legatum
If the testator has erred in the name, cognomen, praenomen, or title of the legatee, when there is certainty about the person, the legacy is nonetheless valid.
constat
[Latin "it is settled"] Hist. A certificate made by the Clerk of the Pipe and the auditors of the Exchequer at the request of a person intending to plead in the Court of Exchequer for the discharge of some item. ( The constat certified what appeared on record.
constate
vb. To establish, constitute, or ordain. ( Constate usu. appears in relation to corporate documents; for example, the constating instruments of a corporation are its charter, organic law, or grant of powers to it.
non constat
[Latin "it is not settled"] It is not certain or agreed. ( The phrase is generally used to state that some conclusion does not necessarily follow although it might appear on its face to follow. Cf NON SEQUITUR. "Non Constat . . . . Words frequently used, particularly in argument, to express dissatisfaction with the conclusions of the other party: as, it was moved in arrest of judgment that the declaration was not good, because non constat whether AB was seventeen years of age when the action was commenced." 3 John Bouvier, Bouvier's Law Dictionary 2355 (8th ad. 1914).
pactum de constatuto
. [Latin "an agreement from a contract or compact"] An agreement under which one person will pay another's debt in exchange for which the second person agrees not to sue the first on some claim that has arisen. ( The pactum de constituto was one of the five types of adpromission in Roman law. See ADPROMISSION.