Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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Edictum Theodoris
A col lection of Roman laws applicable to both mans and Goths, promulgated by Theodo king of the Ostrogoths, at Rome about 500, or perhaps in the time of Theodoric III OF the Visigoths in Gaul about A.D. 460.
Generale dictum generaliter est interpretandum
A general expression is to be construed generally.
In traditionibus scriptorum (chartarum) non quod dictum est, sed quod gestum (factum) est, inspicitur
In the delivery of writings (deeds), not what is said but what is done is to be considered.
Injuria fit ei cui convicium dictum est, vel de eo factum carmen famosum
An injury is done to the person of whom an insult was said, or concerning whom an infamous song was made.
Judicium est quasi juris dictum
Judgment is, as it were, a pronouncement of the right (or a saying of the law).
Nihil dictum quod non dictum prius
Nothing is said that was not said before.
Non quod dictum est, sed quod factum est, inspicitur
Not what has been said but what has been done is regarded.
Novum judicium non dat novum jus, sed declarat antiquum; quia judicium est juris dictum, et per judicium jus est noviter revelatum quod diu fuit velatum
A new judgment does not make a new right, but declares the old; because adjudication is the declaration of a right, and by adjudication the right is newly revealed which has long been hidden. 10 Coke 42.
Veredictum quasi dictum veritatis; ut judicium quasi juris dictum
A verdict is, as it were, the saying of the truth, in the same manner that a judgment is the saying of the law (or right).
aedilitium edictum
n. [latin] roman law. an edict giving remedies for fraudulent sales; the aedilitian edict. ( this edict was enforced by the aediles curules, who were municipal officers with police duties and jurisdiction over markets.
dictum
n. 1. A statement of opinion or belief considered authoritative because of the dignity of the person making it. 2. A familiar rule; a maxim. 3. OBITER DICTUM. Pl. dicta.
dictum de Kenilworth
n. [Law Latin "edict of Kenilworth"] Hist. A declaration of an agreement between Edward I and the barons who had opposed him under the leadership of Simon de Montfort. ( The agreement, which concerned rent on the lands forfeited in the rebellion, was so called because it was made at Kenilworth castle in Warwickshire in A.D. 1266. It was published in the Statutes of the Realm and 52 Hen. 3.
dictum page
See pinpoint citation under CITATION.
dictum propria
See dictum proprium under DICTUM.
dictum proprium
A personal or individual dictum that is given by the judge who delivers an opinion but that is not necessarily concurred in by the whole court and is not essential to the disposition. - Also termed (loosely) dictum propria.
edictum
n. [Latin] Roman law. An edict or mandate; an ordinance or law enacted by the emperor without the senate, belonging to the class of constitutiones principis. ( An edict was a constitution of the emperor acting on his own initiative, differing from a rescript in not being returned in the way of answer; from a decree in not being given in judgment; and from both in not being founded upon solicitation.
edictum annuum
The annual edict or system of rules promulgated by a Roman praetor immediately upon assuming office, setting forth the principles by which the praetor would be guided in determining cases and administering justice while in office.
edictum perpetuum
The permanent part of the urban praetor's edict, edited in its final form by Julian in A.D. 131.
edictum prouinciale
An edict or system of rules for the administration of justice, similar to the edict of the praetor, set forth by the proconsuls and pro-praetors in the pro-praetors.
edictum tralatitium
praetor's edict that retained all or a princi part of the predecessor's edict, with only si additions as appeared necessary to adapt it to changing social conditions or juristic ideas,
gratis dictum
1. A voluntary statement; an assertion that a person makes without being obligated to do so. 2. A court's stating of a legal principle more broadly than is necessary to decide the case. 3. A court's discussion of points or questions not raised by the record or its suggestion of rules not applicable in the case at bar.
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.
judicial dictum
An opinion by a court on a question that is directly involved, briefed, and argued by counsel, and even passed on by the court, but that is not essential to the decision. Cf. OBITER DICTUM.
obiter dictum
[Latin "something said in passing"] A judicial comment made during the course of delivering a judicial opinion, but one that is unnecessary to the decision in the case and therefore not precedential (though it may be considered persuasive). - Often shortened to dictum or, less commonly, obiter. Pl.
simplex dictum
See DICTUM.
veredictum
, n. Hist. A verdict; a declaration of the truth of a matter in issue, submitted to a jury for trial.