Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Dolo malo pactum se non servaturum
An agreement induced by fraud will not preserve itself (will not stand).
In contrahenda venditione, ambiguum pactum contra venditorem interpretandum est
In the contract of sale, an ambiguous agreement is to be interpreted against the seller.
Nudum pactum est ubi nulla subest causa praeter conventionem; sed ubi subest causa, fit obligatio, et parit actionem
Naked agreement (nudum pactum) is where there is no consideration besides the agreement; but when there is a consideration, an obligation is created and it gives a right of action.
Nudum pactum ex quo non oritur action
Naked agreement (nudum pactum) is that from which no action arises.
Regulariter non valet pactum de re mea non alienanda
As a rule, a contract not to alienate my property is not binding.
nudum pactum
[Latin "bare agreement"] 1. Roman law. An informal agreement that is not legally enforceable, because it does not fall within the specific classes of agreements that can support a legal action. ( But a pactum could create an exception to or modification of an existing obligation. 2. An agreement that is unenforceable as a contract because it is not "clothed" with consideration. - Also termed naked contract; nude contract; nude pact.
pactum
[Latin] Roman & civil law. An agreement or convention; a pact. - Also termed pactum conventum.
pactum constitutae pecuniae
[Latin "agreement for a fixed sum of money"] An agreement in which someone promises to payan existing debt of his own or another on a certain date.
pactum de constatuto
. [Latin "an agreement from a contract or compact"] An agreement under which one person will pay another's debt in exchange for which the second person agrees not to sue the first on some claim that has arisen. ( The pactum de constituto was one of the five types of adpromission in Roman law. See ADPROMISSION.
pactum de non petendo
. [Latin "agreement not to sue"] An agreement in which a creditor promises to not enforce the debt.