Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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

Collegium est societas plurium corporum simul habitantium

A college is a society of several people dwelling together.

Fraus et jus nunquam cohabitant

Fraud and justice never dwell together.

Jus et fraus nunquam cohabitant

Right and fraud never abide together.

habitant

n. [French] 1. Hist. French law. A person holding land in feudal tenure from a seignior. 2. A native of Canada of French descent, esp. one from the farming class.

homo Romanus (ra-may-nas). A Roman. ( A term used in Germanic law codes to describe the Roman inhabitants of Gaul and other former Roman provinces. homo sui juris

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