Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
ex officio
adu. & adj. [Latin] By virtue or because of an office; by virtue of the authority implied by office.
ex officio information
English law. A criminal information filed by the attorney general ex officio on behalf of the Crown, in the Court of King's Bench, for offenses more immediately affecting the government, as distinguished from informations in which the Crown is the nominal prosecutor.
ex officio justice
A judge who serves on a commission or board only because the law requires the presence of a judge rather than because the judge was selected for the position.
ex officio service
A service that the law imposes on an official by virtue of the office held, such as a local sheriffs duty to perform marriage ceremonies.
oath ex officio
At common law, an oath under which a member of the clergy who was accused of a crime could swear innocence before an ecclesiastical court.
oath ex officio.
See OATH,