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Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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

nut tiel

[Law Latin] No such. ( This phrase typically denotes a plea that denies the existence of something.

nut tiel corporation,

n. [Law French "no such corporation exists"] A plea denying the existence of an alleged corporation. ( The defense of nul tiel corporation must usu. be affirmatively pleaded by a defendant before a plaintiff is required to prove its corporate existence.

nut tiel record

n. [Law French "no such record"] A plea denying the existence of the record on which the plaintiff bases a claim. Evidence may generally be introduced to invalidate the record only, not the statements in the record. See trial by record under TRIAL. "The proper general issue in debt on judgments is 'mil tiel record,' which denies the existence of the record alleged. Nul tiel record sets up: (1) the defense either that there is no record at all in existence; or (2) one different from that which the defendant has declared of; or (3) that the judgment is void on the face of the record." Benjamin J. Shipman, Handbook of CommonLaw Pleading ยง 186, at 330 (Henry Winthrop Ballantine ed., 3d ed. 1923).