Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

levato veto

n. [Latin "with the curtain raised"] Roman law. The principle, applied to cases of wreck and salvage, and later to all maritime matters, that cases should be heard promptly. ( Although commentators disagree about the origin of the expression, it probably refers to the place where causes were heard. A sail was spread before the door, and when the cases were heard, the sail was raised, allowing suitors to come into court and have their causes immediately heard.