Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Nihil consensui tam contrarium est quam vis atque metus
Nothing is so opposite to consent as force and fear.
Poena ad paucos, metus ad omnes perveniat
Let punishment be inflicted on a few, dread upon all.
Ut poena ad paucos, metus ad omnes perveniat
So that punishment afflict few, (and) fear affect all.( Blackstone cites Cicero (pro Cluentio 46) emphasizing deterrence. 4 Bl. Com. 11.
actio quod metus causa
An action to penalize someone who wrongfully compelled the plaintiff to assume an obligation. 0 The plaintiff could obtain damages of four times the value of the extorted property.
actio quod metus causa.
See ACTIO.
exceptio metus
An exception or plea of fear or compulsion.
metus
[Latin] Roman law. 1. Fear of imminent danger; apprehension of serious danger, esp. in the form of duress to force a person to do something. "Fear (metus) had the same effect as fraud as regards the avoidance of the contract. It might be set up by way of defence (exceptio metus) or be the ground of restitutio in integrum, or give rise to an action (actio metus) . . . . It was not any kind of fear which grounded this action. The evil threatened must be of a serious character . . . . " R.W. Lee, The Elements of Roman Lour 352 (4th ed. 1956).2. A threat by which damage is done to another's property.