Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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

Carcer ad homines custodiendos, non ad puniendos, dari debet

Imprisonment should be imposed for keeping people in confinement, not for punishing them (further). Co. Litt 260a.

Interest reipublicae quod homines conserventur.

It is in the interest of the state that people should be protected.

Jus naturale est quod spud homines eandem habet potentiam

Natural right is that which has the same force among (all) mankind.

Mercis appellatione homines non contineri

Under the name of merchandise human beings are not included.

Multo utilius est pauca idonea effundere, quam multis inutilibus homines gravari

It is much more useful to pour forth a few suitable things than to burden mankind with many useless things.

Non decet homines dedere causa non cognita.

It is unbecoming to surrender people when no cause has been shown.

Non est arctius vinculum inter homines quam jusjurandum

There is no closer (or firmer) link among men than an oath.

Quod ad jus naturale attinet, omnes homines aequales sunt

All men are equal as far as natural law is concerned.

Quod attinet ad jus civile, servi pro nullis habentur, non tamen et jure naturali, quia, quod ad jus naturale attinet, omnes homines aequali sunt

So far as the civil law is concerned, slaves are not reckoned as nonentities, but not so by natural law, for so far as regards natural law, all men are equal.

Quod naturalis ratio inter omnes homines constituit, vocatur jus gentium

What natural reason has established among all men is called the law of nations.

Sanguinis conjunctio benevolentia devincit homines et caritate

A tie of blood overcomes human beings through benevolence and family affection.

boni homines

[Law Latin "good men"] Hist. Free tenants who judged each other in their lord's court. " [W]e may find traces of juries in the laws of all those nations which adopted the feodal system, as in Germany, France, and Italy; who had all of them a tribunal composed of twelve good men and true, boni homines' . . .." 3 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 349 (1768).

habentes hominess

n. [Law Latin "men who have"] Hist. Rich men. - Also termed foesting-men.

homines

n. [Latin "men"] Hist. Feudal tenants entitled to have their causes and other matters tried only in their lord's court. See HOMO.

homines ligii

[Latin] Hist. Liege men; feudal tenants or vassals, esp. those who held immediately of the sovereign.