Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Audita querela
[law latin "the complaint having been heard"] a writ available to a judgment debtor who seeks a rehearing of a matter on grounds of newly discovered evidence or newly existing legal defenses
Omnis querela et omnis actio injuriarum limitata est infra certa tempora
Every plaint and every action for injuries is limited within fixed times.
duplex querela
1. Hist. Eccles. law. An appeal by a clerk to the archbishop in response to the bishop's delaying or wrongfully refusing to do justice. ( It is a double quarrel in that sometimes the archbishop orders a judge considering parallel proceedings not to take any action against the complainant during the pendency of the suit. 2. Eccles. law. An appeal to a person's immediate superior, as when a bishop appeals to an archbishop. - Also termed double quarrel; double complaint.
ex gravi querela
[Latin "from or on the grievous complaint"] Hist. A writ that lay for a person to whom any lands or tenements in fee were devised by will (within any city, town, or borough in which lands were devisable by custom), against an heir of the devisor who entered and detained them from the devisee. ( The writ was abolished by the Real Property Limitation Act (1833). St. 3 & 4 Will. 4, ch. 27, ยง 36.
querela
[Law Latin fr. Latin queri "to complain"] Hist. 1. A complaint; the plaintiff's count or declaration. 2. A cause of action. 3. Roman law. An action.
querela coram rege a concilio discutienda et terminanda
n. [Law Latin "a dispute to be discussed and resolved by the council in front of the king"] Hist. A writ ordering someone to appear before the king to answer to a trespass.
querela inofftciosi testaments
n. [Latin "a dispute of an undutiful will"] Roman law. An action allowing a descendant, ascendant, or sibling who was unjustly disinherited or passed over by a parent's will to have the will set aside as undutifully made.