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Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.

Clausula vel dispositio inutilis per praesumptionem remotam vel causam ex post facto non fulcitur

A useless clause or disposition is not supported by a remote presumption or by a cause arising afterwards. ( A useless clause or disposition is one that expresses no more than the law by intendment would have supplied; it is not supported by a remote presumption or foreign intendment of some purpose, in regard whereof it might be material, or by a cause arising afterwards that may induce an operation of those idle words.

Ex Post Facto Clause

One of two clauses in the U.S. Constitution forbidding the enactment of ex post facto laws. U.S. Const. art. I, § 9; art. I, § 10.

Nunquam crescit ex post facto praeteriti delicti aestimatio

The valuation (or assessment of damage) for a past offense is never increased by what happens subsequently. Dig. 50.17.138.1.

Quae ab initio inutilis fuit institutio, ex post facto convalescere non potest

An institution void in the beginning cannot acquire validity by a subsequent act.

Quae ab initio non valent, ex post facto convalescere non possunt

Things invalid from the beginning cannot be made valid by a subsequent act.

ex post facto

adj. Done or made after the fact having retroactive force or effect.

ex post facto law

A law that applies retroactively, esp. in a way that negatively affects a person's rights, as by criminalizing an action that was legal when it was committed. 0 Ex post facto criminal laws are prohibited by the

obiter ex post facto

. A court's holding that, according to a later court, was expressed in unnecessarily broad terms. ( Some authorities suggest that this is not, properly speaking, a type of obiter dictum at all.

warranty ex post facto

. A broken condition for which the injured party could void the contract, but decides instead to continue the contract, with a right of action for the brokexr condition (which amounts to a breached warranty). See CONDITION (2). Cf warranty ab initio.