Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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

Dolus et fraus nemini patrocinentur (patrocinari debent)

Deceit and fraud should excuse or benefit no one (they themselves require some excuse).

Fraus est celare fraudem

It is a fraud to conceal a fraud.

Fraus est odiosa et non praesumenda

Fraud is odious and not to be presumed.

Fraus et dolus nemini patrocinari debent.

Fraud and deceit should excuse no one.

Fraus et jus nunquam cohabitant

Fraud and justice never dwell together.

Fraus latet in generalibus

Fraud lies hidden in general expressions.

Fraus meretur fraudem

Fraud deserves fraud.

Jus et fraus nunquam cohabitant

Right and fraud never abide together.

fraus

[Latin] Deceit; cheating. ( For example, a debtor who conveyed property with the specific intent (fraus) of defrauding a creditor risked having the conveyance rescinded.

fraus legis

[Latin "fraud on the law"] Roman law. Evasion of the law; specif., doing something that is not expressly forbidden by statute, but that the law does not want done.

pia fraus

[Latin "pious fraud"] A subterfuge or evasion considered morally justifiable; esp., evasion or disregard of the law in the interests of a religious institution, such as the church's circumventing the mortmain statutes.