Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Clerk of the Crown in Chancery
The head of the permanent staff of the Crown Office in Chancery (of the Central Office), responsible for reading the title of Bills in the House of Lords, sending out writs of summons to peers, and issuing election writs.
Court for Consideration of Crown Cases Reserved
Hist. A court established in 1848 to review questions of law arising in criminal cases. 9 Trial judges posed the postverdict questions of law to the Court, which decided whether error had been committed. The Court was abolished in 1907, and its jurisdiction was transferred to the Court of Criminal Appeal. -Also termed Court for Crown Cases Reserved . "It was an old practice for the judge, in case of a conviction, if he felt a doubt as to the law, to respite judgment or sentence, and discuss the matter informally with the other judges. If they thought that the prisoner had been improperly convicted, he was pardoned. Statutory authority was given to this practice in 1848 by the establishment of the court for Crown Cases Reserved. All the judges were members of this court; and five, of whom the Lord Chief Justice must be one, formed a quorum." 1 William Holdsworth, A History of English Law 217 (7th ed. 1956).
Crown
See KING.
Crown Court
An English court having jurisdiction over major criminal cases. ( Crown Courts date from 1971, when they assumed the criminal jurisdiction of the Assize Courts and all the jurisdiction of the Courts of Quarter Sessions.
Crown case
English law. A criminal action.
Crown land
Demesne land of the Crown; esp., in England and Canada, land belonging to the sovereign personally, or to the government, as distinguished from land held under private ownership. - Also termed demesne land of the Crown. See demesne land.
Crown loan
Tax. An interest-free demand loan, usu. from parent to child, in which the borrowed funds are invested and the income from the investment is taxed at the child's rate. ( This type of loan is named for one Harry Crown of Chicago, reputedly one of the first persons to use it. See kiddie tax under TAX.
Master of the Crown Office
English law. A Supreme Court officer who is appointed by the Lord Chief Justice. ( Formerly, the Master was the Queen's Coroner and attorney, who was originally appointed by the Lord Chancellor to prosecute criminal cases in the name of the Crown.
address to the Crown.
Upon a reading of a royal speech in Parliament, the ceremonial resolution by Parliament expressing thanks to the sovereign for the gracious speech. 0 Formerly, two members were selected in each house for moving and seconding the address. With the commencement of the 189() gle resolution was adopted.
crown jewel
A company's most valuable asset, esp. as valued when the company is the subject of a hostile takeover. ( A common antitakeover device is for the target company to sell its crown jewel to a third party so that the company will be less attractive to an unfriendly suitor. See SCORCHED-EARTH DEFENSE.
decrowning.
the act of depriving someone of a crown.
demesne land of the Crown
See Crown Ian, under LAND.
demise of the Crown
The immediate, automatic transfer of a kingdom to a successor upon a sovereign's death or long absence from the throne."The king never dies. Henry, Edward, or George may die; but the king survives them all. For immediately upon the decease of the reigning prince in his natural capacity, his kingship or imperial dignity, by act of law, without any ... interval, is vested at once in his heir; who is, eo instanti, king to all intents and purposes. And so tender is the law of supposing even a possibility of his death, that his natural dissolution is generally called his demise .an expression which signifies merely a transfer of property; for . . . when we say the demise of the crown, we mean only that, in consequence of the disunion of the king's body natural from his body politic, the kingdom is transferred or demised to his successor; and so the royal dignity remains perpetual." 1 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 242 (1765).
message from the Crown
An official communication from the sovereign to Parliament.