Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Lex benefacialis rei consimili remedium praestat
A beneficial law affords a remedy in a similar case.
facial
[Law Latin] That you cause. ( Facias is used in writs as an emphatic word. See FIERI FACIAS; LEVARI FACIAS; SCIRE FACIAS. It also appears in the phrase ut facial ("so that you do"). See DO UT FACIAS; FACIO UT DES; FACIO UT FACIAS.
facial attack
A challenge to the sufficiency of a complaint, such as a motion to dismiss in federal practice.
facial challenge
A claim that a statute is unconstitutional on its face - that is, that it always operates unconstitutionally 2. A party's request that a judge disqualify a potential juror or an entire jury panel <,the personal-injury plaintiff used his last challenge to disqualify a neurosurgeon>. - Also termed jury challenge. causal challenge. See challenge for cause.
facial, adj
Apparent; on the face of things; prima facie <a facial challenge to the statute>.
facially sufficient
adj. (Of a document) appearing valid on its face. 0 A search-warrant affidavit's facial sufficiency will not protect it from attack if the affidavit is based on false testimony by the officer making the affidavit. See FRANKS HEARING.
facially void
(Of an instrument) patently void upon an inspection of the contents. -Also termed void on its face.
habere facial visum
n. [Law Latin "that you cause to have a view"] Hist. A writ allowing a litigant to inspect the lands in controversy.
scire facial sur municipal claim
n. [Law Latin "that you cause to know on municipal claim"] Hist. A writ compelling the payment of a municipal claim out of the property to which a municipal lien is attached.
sequestrari facial
n. [Law Latin "you are to cause to be sequestered"] Hist. Eccles. law. A process to enforce a judgment against a clergyman in a benefice, by which the bishop was ordered to sequester a church's rents, tithes, or other profits until the debt was paid. sequestrate, ub. See SEQUESTER.