Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Si quid universitati debetur, singulis non debetur, nec quod debet universitas singuli debent
If anything is due to a corporation, it is not due to the individual members of it, nor do the members individually owe what the corporation owes.
Universitas vel corporatio non dicitur aliquid facere nisi id sit collegialiter deliberatum, etiamsi major pars id faciat
A university or corporation is not said to take any action unless the action was resolved by it as a body, even if a greater part of the body should act.
universitas
[Latin] Roman law. A union of persons considered as a whole; a corporation.
universitas juris
[Latin] Roman & civil law. The whole of a person's rights and liabilities; the totality of a person's legal relations. "A universitas juris is a collection of rights and duties united by the single circumstance of their having belonged at one time to some one person." Henry S. Maine, Ancient Law 148 (17th ed. 1901).
universitas personarum
[Latin] Roman & civil law. A group of people that are legally considered an entity, such as a college or corporation.
universitas rerum
[Latin] Roman & civil law. A whole collection of things; a variety of individual things that are together regarded by the law as a whole. See JUS RERUM. "In the time of Justinian the universitas rerum, or universitas iuris (both expressions are used) is a somewhat abstract conception: it means the sum or whole of a man's legal position so far as it concerns the ius rerum. The conception is important in law only on the occasions, of which death is by far the most important, on which the universitas passes from one to another The expression universitas rerum is also used in another sense, to denote any collection of objects considered as a whole." W.W. Buckland, A Manual of Roman Private Law 172 (2d ed. 1953).