Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.

IN semper debet fieri triatio ubi juratores meliorem possunt habere notitiam

A trial should always be held where the jurors can have the best information.

Jurisprudentia est divinarum atque humanarum rerum notitia, justi atque injusti scientia

Jurisprudence is the knowledge of things divine and human, the science of the just and the unjust. Just. Inst. 1.1.1.

Notitia dicitur a noscendo; et notitia non debet claudicare

Notice is named from knowledge; and notice ought not to limp (that is, be imperfect).

Triatio ibi semper debet fieri ubi juratores meliorem possunt habere notitiam

Trial ought always to be held where the jurors can have the better information.

notitia

n. [Latin "knowledge"] 1. Roman law. Knowledge; information. ( This term carried over for a time into English practice. 2. Roman law. A list; register; catalogue. ( The notitia dignitatum (dig-ni-tay-tam) was a list of the high offices in the Eastern and Western parts of the empire. 3. Hist. Notice. 4. A list of ecclesiastical sees.