Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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

consideratum est per curiam

[Latin] Hist. It is considered by the court. ( This was the formal language preceding the judgment of a commonlaw court. Cf. IDEO CONSIDERATUM EST.

per curiam

n. See per curiam opinion under OPINION (1).

per curiam opinion

An opinion handed down by an appellate court without identifying the individual judge who wrote the opinion. - Sometimes shortened to per curiam.

sed per curiam

[Latin] But by the court. ( This phrase is used to introduce: (1) a statement made by the court disagreeing with counsel's arguments; or (2) the opinion of the whole court when different from the opinion of the single judge immediately before quoted.