Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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

Consentire matrimonio non possunt infra (ante) annos nubiles.

Persons cannot consent to marriage before marriageable years.

Ecclesia est infra aetatem et in custodia domini regis, qua tenetur jura et haereditates ejusdem manu tenere et defendere

The church is underage and in the custody of the king, who is bound to uphold and defend its rights and inheritances.

Infraction

n. A violation, usu. of a rule or local ordinance and usu. not punishable by incarceration. - infract, ub.

Infrastructure

The underlying framework of a system; esp., public services and facilities (such as highways, schools, bridges, sewers, and water systems) needed to support commerce as well as economic and residential development.

Jura ecclesiastica limitata sunt infra limites separatos

Ecclesiastical laws are limited within separate bounds.

Minor qui infra aetatem 12 annorum fuerit utlagari non potest nec extra legem poni, quia ante talem aetatem, non est sub lege aliqua nec in decenna

A minor who is under 12 years of age cannot be outlawed nor placed beyond the law, because before such age he is not under any law nor in a decennary.

Nihil infra regnum subditos magic conservat in tranquilitate et concordia quam debita legum administration

Nothing better preserves the subjects of the realm in tranquillity and concord than a due administration of the laws. 2 Co. Inst. 158.

Omnes actiones in mundo infra certa tempora habent limitationem

All actions in the world are limited within certain periods.

Omnis querela et omnis actio injuriarum limitata est infra certa tempora

Every plaint and every action for injuries is limited within fixed times.

actio non accreait infra sex annos.

See ACTIO.

actio non accrevit infra sex annos

n. [Latin "the action did not accrue within six years"] Hist. A plea to the statute of limitations by which the defendant asserts that the plaintiff's cause of action has not accrued within the last six years.

civil infraction

An act or omission that, though not a crime, is prohibited by law and is punishable. ( In some states, many traffic violations are classified as civil infractions.

clerico infra sacros ordines constituto, non eligendo in officium

See DE CLERICO INFRA SACROS ORDINES CONSTITUTO, NON ELIGENDO IN OFFICIUM.

de clerico infra sacros ordines constituto, non eligendo in officium

[Law Latin "for not electing a clerk in holy orders to office"] Hist. A writ ordering a cleric's release from secular office. 0 The writ was addressed to the bailiff or other person who had forced a cleric to take a bailiwick or other secular office.

dum fuit infra aetatem

n. [Law Latin "while he was within age"] Hist. A writ allowing a person of full age to recover lands feoffed while the person was an infant. 0 The remedy was also available to the person's heirs. It was later replaced by the action of ejectment. See EJECTMENT.

infra

adj. [Latin "below"] Later in this text. ( Infra is used as a citational signal to refer to a later-cited authority. In medieval Latin, infra also acquired the sense "within." Cf. INTRA; SUPRA.

infra aetatem

adj. [Latin] Underage. - Also spelled infra etatem.

infra annos nubiles

adj. [Law Latin] Hist. Under marriageable years; i.e., not old enough to wed.

infra annum

adu. [Law Latin] Under a year; within a year.

infra annum luctus

adu. [Latin] Hist. Within the year of mourning. ( The referred to the one-year period of mourning during which a widow was prohibited from remarrying.

infra ciuitatem

adu. [Law Latin] Within the state.

infra corpus comitatus

adu. & adj. [Law Latin] Hist. Within the body of a county. ( In English law, this phrase referred to a body of water that was completely enclosed by land, and therefore exempt from admiralty jurisdiction.

infra dignitatem curiae

adj. [Law Latin "beneath the dignity of the court"] (Of a case) too trifling in amount or character to be entertained by a court.

infra furorem

adu. [Law Latin] During madness; while in a state of insanity.

infra hospitium

[Law Latin "within the inn"] The doctrine that an innkeeper is liable for goods deposited by a guest.

infra jurisdictionem

adu. & adj. [Law Latin] Within the jurisdiction.

infra praesidia

[Latin "within the defenses"] Hist. The internationallaw doctrine that someone who captures goods will be considered the owner of the goods if they are brought completely within the captor's power. ( This term is a corruption of the Roman-law term intra praesidia, which referred to goods or persons taken by an enemy during war. Under the principle of postliminium, the captured person's rights or goods were restored to prewar status when the captured person returned. See POSTLIMINIUM.

non accrevit infra sex annos

n. [Latin "it did not accrue in six years"] Hist. The general pleading form for the statute-of-limitations defense.

non assumpsit infra sex annos

n. [Latin "he did not undertake within six years"] Hist. The specific pleading form for the statute-oflimitations defense in an action of assumpsit.

quare ejecit infra terminum

n. [Law Latin "why he ejected within the term"] Hist. A writ for a lessee who was prematurely ejected, when the ejector was not actually in possession but one claiming under the ejector was. "For this injury the law has provided him with two remedies . . . the writ of ejectione firmae; . . . and the writ of quare ejecti infra terminum; which lies not against the wrongdoer or ejector himself, but his feoffee or other person claiming under him. These are mixed actions, somewhat between real and personal; for therein are two things recovered, as well restitution of the term of years, as damages for the ouster or wrong." 3 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 199 (1768).

ut infra

[Latin] As below.