Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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

Nul charter, nul vente, ne nul done vault perpetualment, si le donor West seine al temps de contracts de deux droits, sc. del droit de possession et del droit de proper ite

No grant, no sale, no gift, is valid foreveunless the donor, at the time of the contract, i seised of two rights, namely, the right of T);, session and the right of propert

Reprobata pecunia liberal solventem

Money refused releases the person paying (or offering payment).

Seventeenth Amendment

The constitutional amendment, ratified in 1913, transferring the power to elect U.S. senators from the state legislatures to the states' voters.

invented consideration

Fictional consideration created by a court to prevent the invalidation of a contract that lacks consideration.

vente

. [French] French law. A sale; contract of sale.

vente a remere

A conditional sale, in which the seller reserves the right to redeem or repurchase at the same price. ( The term is used in Louisiana and in some parts of Canada.

vente alhatoire

. A sale subject to an uncertain event.

vente aux encheres

An auction. See AUCTION.

venter

, n. [Latin "womb"] 1. The womb of a wife or mother. 2. One of tyvo or more women who are sources of the same man's offspring. ,'venter . . . is a term nowadays considered objectionable, as it refers to the woman merely as the possessor of a birth canal." Bryan A. Garner, A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage 910 (2d ed. 1995).