Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Euin qui nocentenz infamat, non est aequuniet bonum ob eam rem condemnari; delicta enim nocentium nota esse oportet et expodit
It is not just and proper that one wiv, speaks ill of a bad person should be condemm -c on that account; for it is fitting and expediew that the wron'doinfis of bad poople should be known.
Expressa nocent, non expressa non nocent.
Things expressed do harm; things not expressed do not.
Ignorantia judicis est calamitas innocentis.
The ignorance of the judge is the misfortune of the innocent.
In favorem vitae, libertatis, et innocentiae omnia praesumuntur.
All presumptions are in favor of life, liberty, and innocence.
Minatur innocentibus qui parcit nocentibus
A person threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.
Plus exempla quam peccata nocent
Exam ples hurt more than offenses.
Qui parcit nocentibus innocentes punit
A person who spares the guilty punishes the innocent.
Superlua non nocent
Superfluities do no injury.
innocent agent
Criminal law. A person whose action on behalf of a principal is unlawful but does not merit prosecution because the agent had no knowledge of the principal's illegal purpose.
innocent conveyance
Hist. A leaseholder's conveyance of the leaseholder's property interest - that is, something less than a fee simple. ( It is a conveyance of an equitable interest.
innocent homicide
Homicide that does not involve criminal guilt.
innocent homicide.
See HOMICIDE
innocent infringement
See INFRINGEMENT.
innocent infringement.
The act of violating an intellectual-property right without knowledge or awareness that the act constitutes infringement. ( An innocent infringer may, in limited circumstances, escape liability for some or all of the damages. In the copyright context, damages may be limited if (1) the infringer was misled by the lack of a copyright notice on an authorized copy of the copyrighted work, distributed under the owner's authority before March 1989 (the effective date of the Berne Convention Implementation Act of 1988), and (2) the infringing act occurred before the infringer received actual notice of the copyright. 17 USCA § 405(b). In the trademark context, publishers and distributors of paid advertisements who innocently infringe a mark have no liability for damages. 15 USCA § 1114. In both contexts, the innocent infringer is immunized only from an award of monetary damages, not from injunctive relief.
innocent junior user.
Trademarks. A person who, without any actual or constructive knowledge, uses a trademark that has been previously used in a geographically distant market, and who may continue to use the trademark in a limited geographic area as long as the senior user does not use the mark there.
innocent misrepresentation
See MISREPRESENTATION.
innocent misrepresentation.
A false statement not known to be false; a misrepresentation that, though false, was not made fraudulently.
innocent party
A party who did not consciously or intentionally participate in an event or transaction.
innocent party.
See PARTY
innocent passage.
Int'l law. The right of a foreign ship to pass through a country's territorial waters, esp. waters connecting two open seas; the right of a foreign vessel to travel through a country's maritime belt without paying a toll. ( Passage is considered innocent as long as it is not prejudicial to the peace, good order, and security of the coastal country. -Also termed right of innocent passage. Cf. TRANSIT PASSAGE.
innocent purchaser
See bona fide purchaser.
innocent purchaser for value
See bona fide purchaser for value under PURCHASER.
innocent purchaser.
See bona fide purchaser under PURCHASER.
innocent spouse.
Tax. A spouse who may be relieved of liability for taxes on income that the other spouse did not include on a joint tax return. 0 The innocent spouse must prove that the other spouse omitted the income, that the innocent spouse did not know and had no reason to know of the omission, and that it would be unfair under the circumstances to hold the innocent spouse liable.
innocent trespass
A trespass committed either unintentionally or in good faith.
innocent trespass.
See TRESPASS.
innocent trespasser
One who enters another's land unlawfully, but either inadvertently or believing in a right to do so.
innocent trespasser.
See TRESPASSER.
innocent,
adj. Free from guilt; free from legal fault. Cf NOT GUILTY (2).
innocent-construction rule.
The doctrine that an allegedly libelous statement will be given an innocuous interpretation if the statement is either ambiguous or harmless. innocent conveyance. See CONVEYANCE.
nocent
n. [fr. Latin nocere "harm' Hist. A person who is guilty.
right of innocent passage
See INNOCENT PASSAGE.