Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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Cognate
n. One who is kin to another. ( In Roman law, the term implies that the kinship derives from a lawful marriage. In Scots and later civil law, the term implies kinship from the mother's side. Cf. AGNATE.
cognate
adj. See COGNATIC.
cognate nuisance
Rare. Interference with an easement. "The term nuisance is applied to torts of two distinct groups, first, acts of wrongful user by an owner or possessor of land resulting in an unreasonable interference with the rights of enjoyment of the owner or possessor of neighboring land, and, second, wrongful interferences with easements or other incorporeal rights." William F. Walsh, A Treatise on Equity 170 (1930). "When an easement was interfered with, an action on the case lay as a matter of course .... Such an interference is sometimes called 'cognate nuisance' to distinguish it from interferences with the personal enjoyment of the incidents of occupying the land." J.H. Baker, An Introduction to English Legal History 486 (3d ed. 1990)
cognate offense
. A lesser offense that is related to the greater offense because it shares several of the elements of the greater offense and is of the same class or category. ( For example, shoplifting is a cognate offense of larceny because both crimes require the element of taking property with the intent to deprive the rightful owner of that property. Cf. lesser included offense.