Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Charta non est nisi vestimentum donationis
A deed is nothing else than the vestment (or clothing) of a gift.
Cujus per errorem dati repetitio est, ejus consulto dati donatio est
A thing given by mistake can be recovered; if given purposely, it is a gift. Dig. 50.17.53.
Donatio non praesumitur
A gift is not presumed.
Donatio perlcitur possessione accipientis
A gift is rendered complete by the possession of the receiver.
Donatio principis intelligitur sine praejudicio tertii
A gift of the prince is understood without prejudice to a third party.
Donation
1. A gift. 2. Eccles. law. A method of acquiring a benefice by deed of gift alone, without presentation, institution, or induction.
Donationum alia perfecta, alia incepta et non perfecta; ut si donatio lecta fuit et concessa, ac traditio nondum fuerit subsecuta
Some gifts are perfect, others incipient and not perfect; for example, if a gift were read and agreed to, but delivery had not then followed.
Inesse potest donationi modus, conditio sine causa; ut modus est, si conditio; quia causa.
In a gift there may be manner, condition, or cause; as (ut) introduces a manner; if (si), a condition; because (quia), a cause.
Legatum morte testatoris tantum confirmatur, sicut donatio inter vivos traditione sola
A legacy is confirmed by the death of the testator, in the same manner as a gift from a living person is by delivery alone.
Modus legem dat donations
Custom (or form) gives law to a gift.
Non valet donatio nisi subsequatur traditio
A gift is not valid unless delivery (or transference) follows.
Si plures conditiones ascriptae fuerunt donationi conjunctim, omnibus est parendum; et ad veritatem copulative requiritur quod utraque pars sit vera, si divisim, quilibet vel alteri eorum satis est ob
If several conditions are conjunctively written in a gift, the whole of them must be complied with; and with respect to their truth, it is necessary that every part be true, taken jointly: if the conditions are separate, it is sufficient to comply with either one or the other of them; and being disjunctive, that one or the other be true.
Simplex et pura donatio dici poterit ubi nulla est adjecta conditio nec modus
A gift is said to be pure and simple when no condition or qualification has been annexed.
Sola ac per se senectus donationem, testamentum aut transactionem non vitiat
Old age does not alone and of itself vitiate gift, will or transaction.
condonation
n. A victim's implied forgiveness of an offense by treating the offender as if there had been no offense; esp., before the advent of no-fault divorce, a spouse's forgiveness implied by continuing to live normally with the other spouse after that spouse has committed an offense that would otherwise be grounds for divorce.
donatio
[Latin] A gift.
donatio causa mortis
n. See gift causa mortis under GIFT. Pl. donationes causa mortis.
donatio ino fficiosa
[Latin "inofficious gift"] A gift so large that it diminishes an heir's birthright portion of the donor's property.
donatio inter vivos
See inter vivos gift under GIFT.
donatio mortis causa,
n. See gift causa mortis under GIFT. Pl. donationes mortis causa.
donatio propter nuptias
[Latin "a gift on account of marriage"] Roman law. A gift from a husband to his wife equivalent to her dowry and subject to similar conditions. ( It was formerly called donatio ante nuptias ("gift before marriage") because it was not allowed after the marriage celebration. Justinian later changed the law and the name. See DOS.
donation land
See LAND.
perdonatio utlagariae
[Law Latin "pardon of outlawry"] Hist. A pardon given to a person outlawed for failing to obey a court's summons. ( A person who voluntarily surrendered was eligible for this type of pardon.
pro donatione
[Latin] Roman & cavil law. As a gift; as in case of gift. ( This is a ground of usucaption. See USUCAPIO.