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Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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

levari facias residuum debiti

n. [Law Latin "that you cause to be levied when the sheriff has returned that it had no buyers"] Hist. A writ directing the sheriff to levy upon a debtor's lands or goods to pay the remainder of a partially satisfied debt.

residuum

1. That which remains; a residue. 2. See residuary estate under ESTATE. Pl. residua (ri-zij-oo-a).

residuum rule

Administrative law. The principle that an agency decision based partly on hearsay evidence will be upheld on judicial review only if the decision is founded on at least some competent evidence. ( The residuum rule has generally been rejected by federal and state courts.