Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
diligence.
1. A continual effort to accomplish something. 2. Care; caution; the attention and care required from a person in a given situation. 0 The Roman-law equivalent is diligentia. See DILIGENTIA."Care, or the absence of negligentia, is diligentia. The use of the word diligence in this sense is obsolete in modern English, though it is still retained as an archaism of legal diction. In ordinary usage, diligence is opposed to idlenes
extraordinary diligence.
Extreme care that a person of unusual prudence exercises to secure rights or property.
great diligence.
The diligence that a very prudent person exercises in handling his or her own property like that at issue. - Also termed high diligence. low diligence. See slight diligence.
necessary diligence.
The diligence that a person is required to exercise to be legally protected.
ordinary diligence.
The diligence that a person of average prudence would exercise in handling his or her own property like that at issue.
reasonable diligence.
1. A fair degree of diligence expected from someone of ordinary prudence under circumstances like those at issue. 2. See due diligence (1).
slight diligence.
The diligence that a person of less than common prudence takes with his or her own concerns. - Also termed low diligence.