Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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Per rationes pervenitur ad legitimam ra, tionem
By reasoning we come to legal reason
Quaere de dubiis, quia per rationes pervenitur ad legitimam rationem
Inquire into doubtful points, because through reasoning we arrive at legal reason.
Tutor praesumitur intus habere, ante redditas rationes
A tutor is presumed to have funds in his own hands until his accounts have been rendered.
novae narrationes
n. [Law Latin "new counts or tales"] Hist. A collection of pleading forms published during the reign of Edward III.
rationes
n. [Latin "reasons"] Hist. The pleadings in a suit.
rationes decidendi
Cf. OBITER DICTUM; HOLDING. "The phrase 'the ratio decidendi of a case' is slightly ambiguous. It may mean either (1) the rule that the judge who decided the case intended to lay down and apply to the facts, or (2) the rule that a later court concedes him to have had the power to lay down." Glanville Williams, Learning the Law 75 (11th ed. 1982). "There are .. . two steps involved in the ascertainment of the ratio decidendi . . . . First, it is necessary to determine all the facts of the case as seen by the judge; secondly, it is necessary to discover which of those facts were treated as material by the judge." Rupert Cross &