Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
A non posse ad non esse sequitur argumentum necessarie negative, licet non affirmative.
From impossibility to nonexistence the inference follows necessarily in the negative, though not in the affirmative.
Ad quaestiones legis judices, et non juratores, respondent
Judges, and not jurors, answer questions of law.
Affectus punitur licet non sequatur effectus
The intention is punished even if the object is not achieved.
C'est le crime qui fait la honte, et non pas mchafaud
It is the crime that causes the shame, and not the scaffold.
Commercium jure gentium commune esse debet et non in monopolium et privatum paucorum quaestum convertendum
Commerce, by the law of nations, ought to be common and not converted into a monopoly and the private gain of a few.
De non apparentibus et non existentibus eadem est ratio
The rule is the same respecting things that do not appear and things that do not exist.
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.
Fraus est odiosa et non praesumenda
Fraud is odious and not to be presumed.
Idem est non esse et non apparere
It is the same thing not to be as not to appear. ( What does not appear on the record is considered nonexistent.
Idem est non probari et non esse; non deficit jus sed probation
It is the same thing not to be proved and not to exist; the law is not deficient but the proof.
Idem non esse et non apparere
It is the same thing not to exist and not to appear.
In atrocioribus delictis punitur affectus li. cet non sequatur effectus.
In the more atro. cious crimes, the intent (or attempt) is pun ished even if the effect does not follow.
Indictment de felony est contra pacem domini regis, coronam et dignitatem suam, in genere et non in individuo; quia in Anglia non est interregnum.
Indictment for felony is against the peace of our lord the king, his crown and dignity, in general and not in his individual person; because in England there is no interregnum.
Inveniens libellum famosum et non corrumpens punitur
A person who discovers a libel and does not destroy it is punished.
Juramentum est indivisibile, et non est admittendum in parte verum et in parte falsum.
An oath is indivisible; it is not to be accepted as partly true and partly false.
Jus descendit, et non terra
A right descends, and not the land.
Legislatorum est viva vox, rebus et non verbis legem imponere
The voice of legislators is a living voice, to impose laws on (actual) affairs and not on (mere) words.
Les fictions naissent de la loi, et non la loi des fictions
Fictions arise from the law, and not law from fictions.
Natura fide jussionis sit strictissimi juris et non durat vel extendatur de re ad rem, de persona ad personam, de tempore ad tempus
The nature of the contract of suretyship is strictissimi juris, and does not endure or should not be extended from thing to thing, from person to person, or from time to time.
Poena suos tenere debet actores et non alios
Punishment should take hold of the guilty (who commit the wrong), and not others. Bracton 380b.
Qui accusat integrae famae sit et non criminosus
Let the one who accuses be of honest reputation and not implicated in a crime.
Qui tacet non utique fatetur, sed tamen verum est eum non negare
A person who is silent does not indeed confess, but yet it is true that he does not deny.
Quod non apparet non est, et non apparet judicialiter ante judicium
What appears not does not exist, and nothing appears judicially before judgment.
Ratio potest allegari deficiente lege, sed vera et legalis et non apparens
A reason can be adduced when the law is defective, but it must be a true and legal reason, and not specious (or apparent).
Res per pecuniam aestimatur, et non pecunia per res
The value of a thing is estimated by its worth in money, and the value of money is not estimated by reference to things.
Stare decisis et non quieta movere
Literally, to stand by previous decisions and not to disturb settled matters.( To adhere to precedents, and not to depart from established principles.
Verba intentioni, et non a contra, debent inservire
Words should be subject to the intention, not the reverse.
Vigilantibus et non dormientibus jura subveniunt
The laws aid the vigilant, not those who sleep.
et non
[Latin "and not"] Archaic. A phrase formerly used in pleading to introduce the negative averments of a special traverse. See ABSQUE HOC.
per tout et non per my
[Law French] By the whole and not by the half. ( This phrase described the estate given to a husband and wife - both are seised of the entire estate. Cf. PER MY ET PER TOUT.
stare decisis et non quieta movere
[Latin] To stand by things decided, and not to disturb settled points. See STARE DECISIS.