Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Concordare leges legibus est optimus interpretandi modus
To make laws agree with laws is the best mode of interpreting them.
Inesse potest donationi modus, conditio sine causa; ut modus est, si conditio; quia causa.
In a gift there may be manner, condition, or cause; as (ut) introduces a manner; if (si), a condition; because (quia), a cause.
Interpretare et concordare leges legibus est optimus interpretandi modus.
To interpret and reconcile laws so they harmonize is the best mode of construction.
Modus Tenendi Parliamentum
[Law Latin "the manner of holding Parliament"] Hist. A 14thcentury writing on the powers of Parliament, translated in the 17th century and edited by T.D. Hardy in 1846.
Modus de non decimando non valet
A prescription not to pay tithes is void.
Modus et conventio vincunt legem
Customary form and the agreement of the parties overcome the law.( One of the first principles relative to the law of contract. 2 Coke 73.
Modus legem dat donations
Custom (or form) gives law to a gift.
Optimus interpretandi modus est sic leges interpretare ut leges legibus accordant
The best mode of interpreting laws is to make laws agree with laws.
Simplex et pura donatio dici poterit ubi nulla est adjecta conditio nec modus
A gift is said to be pure and simple when no condition or qualification has been annexed.
Tempus enim modus tollendi obligationes et actiones, quia tempus currit contra Besides et sui juris contemptores
For time is a means of destroying obligations and actions, because time runs against those who are inactive and show little respect for their own rights.
modus
[Latin "mode"] 1. Criminal procedure. The part of a charging instrument describing the manner in which an offense was committed. 2. Roman & civil law. Mode; manner; consideration, esp. the manner in which a gift, bequest, servitude, etc. is to be employed. 3. Eccles. law. DE MODO DECIMANDI. See MODUS OPERANDI.
modus de non decimando
See DE NON DECIMANDO.
modus decimandi
See DE MODO DECIMANDI.
modus habilis
[Latin] A valid manner (in proving a debt, etc.).
modus operandi
[Latin "a manner of operating"] A method of operating or a manner of procedure; esp., a pattern of criminal behavior so distinctive that investigators attribute it to the work of the same person < staging a fight at the train station was part of the pickpocket's modus operandi. - Abbr. M.O. Pl. modi operandi.
modus tenendi
[Latin] Hist. The manner of holding. ( This phrase referred to the different types of tenures by which estates were held.
modus transferrendi
[Law Latin] Hist. The manner of transferring.
modus vacandi
(. [Law Latin] Hist. The manner of vacating. ( This term was often used in determining the circumstances under which a vassal surrendered an estate to a lord.
modus vivendi
[Latin "means of living (together)"] Int'l law. A temporary, provisional arrangement concluded between subjects of international law and giving rise to binding obligations on the parties