Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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Neque leges neque senatus consulta ita scribi possunt ut omnes casus qui quandoque inciderint comprehendantur; sed sufficit ea quae plerumque accidunt contineri
Neither laws nor acts of senate can be so written as to include all cases that have happened at any time; it is sufficient that those things that usually occur are encompassed. Dig. 1.3.10. pr.
Senatus consulto
[Latin] Roman law. By the decree of the Sen. ate.
exceptio senatusconsulti Macedoniani
A defense to an action for the recovery of money loaned, on the ground that the loan was made to a minor or a person under another person's paternal power. ( This defense is so named from the decree of the senate that forbade the recovery of such loans.
exceptio senatusconsulti Velleiani
A defense to an action on a contract of suretyship, on the ground that the surety was a woman and thus incapable of becoming bound for another. ( This defense is so named from the decree of the senate forbidding such sureties.
senatus
n. [Latin] Roman law. 1. The senate; the great national council of Roman statesmen and dignitaries. 2. The meeting place for the Roman senate.
senatus consulta
[Latin] Roman law. Advice from the Roman Senate, which had no legal weight (though it was usu. followed) until the end of the second century A.D., when it became the official expression of the imperial will. "Senatus consulta. - In the regal and republican periods the Senate enjoyed no legislative power. It was an advisory body, nominated by the King, and at first purely patrician. Later it . . . included patricians and plebeians ... its chief duty still being to tender advice to the magistrates . . . . The theory still was, till the time of Hadrian, that senatus consults were directions to the magistrates, who were now in fact, if not in name, bound to give effect to them, till by a process of gradual usurpation senatus consulta came to be direct legislation." R.W. Leage, Roman Private Law 12-13 (C.H. Ziegler ed., 2d ed. 1930).
senatus consultum
[Latin] Roman law. A decree of the Roman Senate. - Also termed senatus consult.
senatus consultum Macedonianum
n. [Latin "Macedo's Decree"] Roman law. A senate decree, first given under Claudius and renewed by Vespasian, to protect children from making unconscionable loans with creditors in expectation of their father's death, by making actions to recover such loans unlawful. - Also termed Macedonian Decree.
senatus consultum Velleianum
[Latin "Velleian Decree"] Roman law. A senate decree, probably of A.D. 46, to protect women from making unconscionable guarantees, suretyship undertakings, or debt assumptions for their husbands and for others generally, by making actions to enforce such undertakings unlawful.
senatus consultum ultimae necessitates
[Latin] Roman law. A decree of the senate of the last necessity. ( This decree usu. preceded the nomination of a leader with absolute power in a time of emergency. - Also termed senatus consultum ultimum.
senatus decreta
n. [Latin] Roman law. The senate's decisions.