Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Benedicta est expositio quando res redimitur a destructione
Blessed is the exposition when a thing is saved from destruction.
Contemporanea expositio est optima et fortissima in lege
A contemporaneous exposition is the best and most powerful in the law. ( A statute is best explained by following the construction put upon it by judges who lived at the time it was made, or soon after.
Expositio quae ex visceribus causae nascitur, est aptissima et fortissima in lege
An exposition that springs from the vitals of a cause is the fittest and most powerful in law.
In expositione instrumentorum, mala grammatica, quod fieri potest, vitanda est.
In the construction of instruments, bad grammar is to be avoided as much as possible.
Mala grammatica non vitiat chartam; sed in expositione instrumentorum mala grammatica quoad fieri possit evitanda est
Bad grammar does not vitiate a deed; but in the construction of instruments, bad grammar, as far as possible, is to be avoided.
Maledicta expositio quae corrumpit textum
It is a cursed construction that corrupts the text.
Quoties in verbis nulla est ambiguitas, ibi nulla expositio contra verba expressa ftenda est
Whenever there is no ambiguity in the words, then no exposition contrary to the words is to be made.
Viperina est expositio quae corrodit viscera textus
That is a viperous exposition that gnaws away the innards of the text.
contemporanea expositio
[Latin "contempora-neous exposition"] The doctrine that the best meaning of a statute or document is the one given by those who enacted it or signed it, and that the meaning publicly given by contemporary or long professional usage is presumed to be the true one, even if the language may have a popular or an etymological meaning that is very different.
expositio
n. [Latin] An ex planation or interpretation; an exposition.
exposition de part
[French] French law. The abandonment, in either a public or a private place, of a child that is unable to take care of itself. expository jurisprudence See JURISPRUDENi
statutory exposition
A statute's special interpretation of the ambiguous terms of a previous statute <the statute contained a statutory exposition of the former act>. statutory extortion See EXTORTION.