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Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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

Caveat viator

Let the traveler beware.

caveat viator

[Latin "let the traveler beware"]. The duty of a traveler on a highway to use due care to detect and avoid defects in the way.2. A formal notice or warning given by a party to a court or court officer requesting a suspension of proceedings <the decedent's daughter filed a caveat stating the facts on which her will contest is based>. 3. Under the Torrens system of land titles, a formal notice of an unregistered interest in land. 0 Once lodged with the register of deeds, this notice prevents the register from recording any dealing affecting the estate or the interest claimed. See TOR, RENS SYSTEM. - caveat, vb.