Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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Chartarum super fidem, mortuis testibus, ad patriam de necessitudine recurrendum est
(A dispute) regarding the veracity of deeds, with the witnesses dead, must necessarily be referred to the country (or jury).
Forstellarius est pauperum depressor, et totius communitatis et patriae publicus inimicus
A forestaller is an oppressor of the poor, and a public enemy of the whole community and the country.
In his quae de jure communi omnibus conceduntur, consuetudo alicrsjus patriae vel loci non est alleganda
In those things that by common right are conceded to all, the custom of a particular country or place is not to be adduced.
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.
Nemo potest contra recordum verilcare per patriam
No one can verify by the country against a record.( Certain matters of record cannot be contested in court. 2 Co. Inst. 380.
Nemo potest exuere patriam
No one can cast off his own country.
Patria laboribus et expensis non debet fatigari
A jury ought not to be wearied with labors and expenses.
Patria potestas in pietate debet, non in atrocitate consistere
Parental authority should consist in devotion, not dread.
doctrine of parens patriae
See PARENS PATRIAE (2).
et de hoc ponit se super patriam
[Latin] Hist. And of this he puts himself upon the country. ( This was the formal conclusion of a common-law plea in bar by way of traverse.
et hoc petit quod inquiratur per patriam
[Latin "and this he prays may be inquired of by the country"] Archaic. The conclusion of a plaintiff's pleading that tendered an issue to the country. See CONCLUSION TO THE COUNTRY.
et ic ad patriam.
[Latin] Hist. And so to the country. ( This phrase was used in the Year Books to record an issue to the country.
expatriate
vb. 1. To withdraw (oneself) from residence in or allegiance to one's native country; to leave one's home country to live elsewhere. 2. To banish or exile (a person). - expatriation, n.
exuere patriam
Ub. [Latin] To renounce one's country or native allegiance; to expatriate oneself.
lex patriae
n. [Latin] National law; the law of one's country.
parens patriae
. [Latin "parent of his or her country"] 1. The state regarded as a sovereign; the state in its capacity as provider of protection to those unable to care for themselves <the attorney general acted as parens patriae in the administrative hearing>. 2. A doctrine by which a government has standing to prosecute a lawsuit on behalf of a citizen, esp. on behalf of someone who is under a legal disability to prosecute the suit <parens patriae allowed the state to institute proceedings>. * The state ordinarily has no standing to sue on behalf of its citizens, unless a separate, sovereign interest will be served by the suit. - Also termed doctrine of parens patriae.
pater patriae
. [Latin] Father of the country. See PARENS PATRIAE.
patria
, n. [Latin] 1. Roman law. The fatherland; a person's home area. 2. Hist. The country or the area within it, such as a county or neighborhood. 3. Hist. A jury, as when a defendant "puts himself upon the country" (ponit se super patriam). See CONCLUSION TO THE COUNTRY; GOING TO THE COUNTRY; PAYS. "Though our Latin uses patria, our French uses pays, which descends from Latin pagus. The 'country' of this formula is not our father-land but 'the country-side.' " 2 Frederick Pollock & Frederic W. Maitland, The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward 1624 n.1 (2d ed. 1899).
patria potestas
[Latin "paternal power"] The authority held by the male head of a family over his children and further descendants in the male line, unless emancipated. 9 Initially, the father had extensive powers over the family, including the power of life and death. Over time, the broad nature of the patria potestas gradually became more in the nature of a responsibility to support and maintain family members. "The power of the father continued ordinarily to the close of his life, and included not only his own children, but also the children of his sons, and those of his sons' sons, if any such were born during his lifetime .... Originally and for a long time the patria potestas had a terribly despotic character. Not only was the father entitled to all the service and all the acquisitions of his child, as much as to those of a slave, but he had the same absolute control over his person. He could inflict upon him any punishment however severe .... Consider now that the patria potestas had this character and extent down to the Christian era: that, in general, every citizen of the republic who had a living father was in this condition, unable to hold property, unable to acquire anything for himself, wholly dependent on his father in property and person without help or vindication from the law The reason which caused the Romans to accept and uphold the patria potestas, to maintain it with singular tenacity against the influence of other systems with which they came in contact, must have been the profound impression of family unity, the conviction that every family was, and of right ought to be, one body, with one will and one executive." James Hadley, Introduction to Roman Law 119-21 (1881). potestative condition
ponit se super patriam
[Latin "he puts himself upon the country"] Hist. A defendant's plea of not guilty in a criminal action. -Abbr. po. se. See GOING TO THE COUNTRY; PATRIA (3).