Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
In facto quod se habet ad bonum et malum magis de bona quam de malo lex intendit.
In an act (or deed) that may be considered good or bad, the law looks more to the good than to the bad.
Magis de bono quam de malo lex intendit
The law favors a good rather than a bad construction.( When an agreement's words are susceptible of both a favorable and unfavorable meaning, the former is adopted. Thus, a bond conditioned to assign all offices will be construed to apply to assignable offices.
de essonio de malo lecti
n. [Law Latin "of essoin of malum lecti (sickness of bed)"] Hist. A writ ordering a determination whether a person is truly sick after the person has issued an essoin claiming sickness as an excuse for not appearing in court.
de malo
[Law Latin] Of illness. ( This term defined certain legal excuses, such as de malo lecti ("of illness in bed"), de malo ueniendi ("of illness or misfortune in coming where the court is"), and de malo uillae ("of illness in town where the court is").
essoin de malo uillae
Hist. A procedure by which a defendant, who was in court the first day but was then taken ill without pleading, would send two essoiners to state in court that the defendant was detained by sickness in a particular village and thus unable to attend. ( This essoin would be accepted unless the plaintiff could show its falsity.