Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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

Consulate

1 The office or jurisdiction of a consul <the senator advised the businessman to notify the U.S. consulate in Kuwait before visiting the country>. 2. The location of a consul's office or residence <the family was staying on the second floor, just above the Turkish consulate>.

foreign consulate

The consulate of a foreign country in the receiving state.3. Government by consuls < after the French Revolution, the Directory was overthrown and the Consulate was created>. 0 This sense of consulate is based on the original Roman meaning ("chief magistrate") - not on the modern sense of an overseas representative of a country.