Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Abbreviationum ille numerus et sensus accipiendus est ut concessio non sit inanis
Such number and sense is to be given to abbreviations that the grant may not be void.
Consensus est voluntas plurium ad quos res pertinet, simul juncta
Consent is the conjoint will of several people to whom the thing belongs.
Consensus facit legem.
Consent makes law. A contract constitutes law between the parties agreeing to be bound by it.
Consensus tollit errorem. Consent removes an error
A person cannot object to something he has consented to.
Consensus voluntas multorum ad quos res pertinet simul juncta.
Consent is the united will of several interested in one subject matter.
Consensus, non concubitus, facit matrimonium.
Consent, not coition (or sharing a bed), constitutes marriage.
Dissensus
n. [Latin "disagreement"] Roman law. A mutually agreed annulment of a contractual obligation; an undoing of the consensus that created the obligation.
Nihil tam naturale est quam eo genere quidque dissolvere quo colligatum est, ideo verborum obligatio verbis tollitur; nudi consensus obligatio contrario consensu dissolvitur
Nothing is so natural as to dissolve anything in the way in which it was bound together; therefore the obligation of words is taken away by words; the obligation of mere consent is dissolved by the contrary consent.
Nuptias non concubitus sed consensus facit
Not sharing a bed but consent makes the marriage.
Omne jus aut consensus fecit, aut necessitas constituit, aut firmavit consuetude
Ever right has been derived from consent, established by necessity, or confirmed by custom.
Omnis consensus tollit errorem
Every consent removes an error. 2 Co. Inst. 123.
Saepenumero ubi proprietas verborum attenditur, sensus veritatis amittitur
Frequently where propriety of words is given attention, the meaning of truth is lost.
Scriptae obligationes scriptis tolluntur, et nudi consensus obligatio contrario consensu dissolvitur
Written obligations are undone by writing, and the obligation of mere consent (or naked agreement) is dissolved by a bare consent to the contrary.
Sensus verborum est anima legis
The meaning of words is the spirit of the law.
Sensus verborum est duplex, mitis et asper, et verba semper accipienda sunt in mitiore sensu
The meaning of words is twofold, mild and harsh; and words are always to be received in their milder sense.
Sensus verborum ex causa dicendi accipiendus est, et sermones semper accipiendi sunt secundum subjectam materiam
The sense of words is to be taken from the occasion of speaking them, and discourses are always to be interpreted according to the subject matter.
communi consensus
[Latin] By common consent.
consensus ad idem
[Latin] An agreement of parties to the same thing; a meeting of minds. - Also termed consensus in idem.
sensus
[Latin] Hist. Sense; meaning; signification. ( The word appears in its inflected form in phrases such as malo sensu ("an evil sense"), mitiori sensu ("in a milder sense"), and sensu honesto ("in an honest sense").