Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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Doti lex favet; praemium pudoris est, ideo parcatur

The law favors dower; it is the reward of chastity; therefore let it be preserved.

Flumina et portus publica sunt, ideoque jus piscandi omnibus commune est

Rivers and ports are public; and therefore the right of fishing is common to all.

Nihil tam naturale est quam eo genere quidque dissolvere quo colligatum est, ideo verborum obligatio verbis tollitur; nudi consensus obligatio contrario consensu dissolvitur

Nothing is so natural as to dissolve anything in the way in which it was bound together; therefore the obligation of words is taken away by words; the obligation of mere consent is dissolved by the contrary consent.

Res quae intra praesidia perductae nondum sunt quanquam ab hostibus occupatae, ideo postliminii non egent, quia dominum nondum mutarunt ex gentium jure

Things that have not yet been brought within the enemy's camp, although held by the enemy, do not need the fiction of postliminy on this account, because their ownership by the law of nations has not yet changed.

ideo

adu. [Latin] Therefore; for that reason.

ideo consideratum eat

[Latin] Hist. Therefore it is considered. ( These words often prefaced a judgment at common law, and came to refer to the judgment itself. Cf CONSIDERATUM EST PER CURIAM.