Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Assignatus utitur jure auctoris
An assignee is clothed with the rights of the principal.
Attornatus
[law latin] one who is attorned, or put in the place of another; an attorney.
Conatus quid sit non definitur injure
What an attempt is, is not defined in law.
Concubinatus
[Latin "concubinage"] Roman law. A permanent, monogamous union of a man and a woman who are not legally married. 0 Concubinatus was not prohibited by law, but carried fewer benefits than a legal marriage. Cf. JUSTAE NUPTIAE."[Cloncubinage (concubinatus) ... was something to which we have no precise analogue in modern law, for, so far from being prohibited by the law, it was regulated thereby, being treated as a lawful connexion. It is almost a sort of unequal marriage (and is practically so described by some of the jurists) existing between persons of different station - the man of superior rank, the woman of a rank so much inferior that it is not to be presumed that his union with her was intended to be a marriage." James Bryce, "Marriage and Divorce under Roman and English Law," in 3 Select Essays in AngloAmerican Legal History 806-07 (1909).
Damnatus
[fr. Latin damnare "to condemn"] 1. Roman law. A person condemned, esp. in a capital case. 2. Hist. Something prohibited by law; something that is unlawful, as in damnatus coitus ("unlawful sexual connection").
De jure decimarum, originem ducens de jure patronatus, tunc cognitio spectat at legem civilem, i.e., communem
With regard to the right of tithes, deducing its origin from the right of the patron, then the cognizance of them belongs to the civil law, i.e., common law.
Nemo patriam in qua natus est exuere, nec ligeantiae debitum ejurare posit
No one can cast off his native land or reuse the obligation of allegiance to it.
Neque leges neque senatus consulta ita scribi possunt ut omnes casus qui quandoque inciderint comprehendantur; sed sufficit ea quae plerumque accidunt contineri
Neither laws nor acts of senate can be so written as to include all cases that have happened at any time; it is sufficient that those things that usually occur are encompassed. Dig. 1.3.10. pr.
Non definitur injure quid sit conatus
What an attempt is, is not defined in law.
Non officit conatus nisi sequatur effectus
An attempt does not harm unless a consequence follows.
Officit conatus si effectus sequatur
The attempt becomes of conswquence if the effect fol lows.
Omnis indemnatus pro innoxio legibus habetur
Every uncondemned person is held by the law as innocent.
Senatus consulto
[Latin] Roman law. By the decree of the Sen. ate.
Stellionatus
[Latin "underhand dealing"] Roman & Scots law. Conduct that is fraudulent but does not fall within a specific class of offenses. ( This term applies primarily to fraudulent practices in the sale or hypothecation of land. - Also termed (in Scots law) stellionate. Cf. COZENING. "Though pignus and hypothec are almost different names for the same thing, there were differences. Hypothec was used mainly for land, which cannot be removed. A thing could be pledged only to one, but successive hypothecs might be created over a thing. There was no fraud in this but it was the offence of stellionatus to give a hypothec without declaring existing hypothecs." W.W. Buckland, A Manual of Roman Private Law 355 (2d ed. 1953). "STELLIONATE is a term applied, in the law of Scotland, either to any crime which, though indictable, goes under no general denomination, and is punishable arbitrarily, or to any civil delinquency-of which fraud is an ingredient. Those, e.g., who grant double conveyances of the same subject, are guilty of this crime and are punishable arbitrarily in their persons and goods, besides becoming infamous." William Bell, Bell's Dictionary and Digest of the Law of Scotland 940 (George Watson ed., 1882).
Terminus annorum certus debet esse et determinatus
A term of years ought to be certain and definite (with a fixed end).
agnatus
n. [latin] roman law. a person related through the male line. cf. cognatus."[agnati were] all individuals subject for the time being to the same patria potestas, or who would be so subject were the common ancestor alive. brothers and sisters, with their uncles, aunts, nephews, nieces, and other collaterals (not having been received into another family), if related through males, were agnates. the civil issue of the state was the agnatic family. cognates were all persons who could trace their blood to a single ancestor or ancestress, and agnates were those cognates who traced their connection exclusively through males." john bouvier, bouvier's law dictionary (8th ed. 1914).
ante natus
[law latin] a person born before a certain political event that affected the person's political rights; esp., a person born before the signing of the declaration of independence. cf. post natus.
cognatus
n. [Latin] Roman law. A cognatic relative; a person related to another by a common ancestor. - Also termed cognate. Cf. AGNATUS.
decanatus
n. [Law Latin] Hist. A group of ten people; a decenary. See DECANUS.
exceptio senatusconsulti Macedoniani
A defense to an action for the recovery of money loaned, on the ground that the loan was made to a minor or a person under another person's paternal power. ( This defense is so named from the decree of the senate that forbade the recovery of such loans.
exceptio senatusconsulti Velleiani
A defense to an action on a contract of suretyship, on the ground that the surety was a woman and thus incapable of becoming bound for another. ( This defense is so named from the decree of the senate forbidding such sureties.
heres natus
[Latin "heir by birth"] An heir by reason of birth; an heir at law or by intestacy. Cf. heres factus.
inordinatus
n. [Latin "disor. derly; unordained"] Hist. See INTESTATE.
jus albinatus
n. [Law Latin "right of alien confiscation"] See DROIT DAUBAINE.
jus patronatus
n. [Latin] Eccles. law. The right of patronage; the right to present a clerk to a benefice.
legate natus
See LEGATUS. 4. A representative of a state or the highest authority in a state; an ambassador; a person commissioned to represent a country in a foreign country. - Also termed legatus. - legatine, adj.
legatus natus
[Latin "legate born"] A bishop or archbishop who claims to be a legate by virtue of office in an important see, such as Canterbury. - Also termed legate natus.
natus
adj. [Latin] Born; (of a child) alive.
post natus
[Latin] A person born after a certain political event that affected the person's political rights; esp., a person born after the Declaration of Independence. Cf. ANTE NATUS.
senatus
n. [Latin] Roman law. 1. The senate; the great national council of Roman statesmen and dignitaries. 2. The meeting place for the Roman senate.
senatus consulta
[Latin] Roman law. Advice from the Roman Senate, which had no legal weight (though it was usu. followed) until the end of the second century A.D., when it became the official expression of the imperial will. "Senatus consulta. - In the regal and republican periods the Senate enjoyed no legislative power. It was an advisory body, nominated by the King, and at first purely patrician. Later it . . . included patricians and plebeians ... its chief duty still being to tender advice to the magistrates . . . . The theory still was, till the time of Hadrian, that senatus consults were directions to the magistrates, who were now in fact, if not in name, bound to give effect to them, till by a process of gradual usurpation senatus consulta came to be direct legislation." R.W. Leage, Roman Private Law 12-13 (C.H. Ziegler ed., 2d ed. 1930).
senatus consultum
[Latin] Roman law. A decree of the Roman Senate. - Also termed senatus consult.
senatus consultum Macedonianum
n. [Latin "Macedo's Decree"] Roman law. A senate decree, first given under Claudius and renewed by Vespasian, to protect children from making unconscionable loans with creditors in expectation of their father's death, by making actions to recover such loans unlawful. - Also termed Macedonian Decree.
senatus consultum Velleianum
[Latin "Velleian Decree"] Roman law. A senate decree, probably of A.D. 46, to protect women from making unconscionable guarantees, suretyship undertakings, or debt assumptions for their husbands and for others generally, by making actions to enforce such undertakings unlawful.
senatus consultum ultimae necessitates
[Latin] Roman law. A decree of the senate of the last necessity. ( This decree usu. preceded the nomination of a leader with absolute power in a time of emergency. - Also termed senatus consultum ultimum.
senatus decreta
n. [Latin] Roman law. The senate's decisions.