Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Hist. An Article III court created in 1929 to hear appeals in customs and patent cases. ( This court was abolished in 1982 and was superseded by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Custom
n. 1. A practice that by its common adoption and long, unvarying habit has come to have the force of law. See USAGE.
Customary
n. A record of all the established legal and quasi-legal practices within a community.
Custome serra prise stricte
Custom shall be construed strictly.
Customhouse
A building or office, esp. at a port, where duties or customs are collected and where ships are cleared for entering or leaving the port. - Also spelled customshouse. customhouse broker See BROKER.
Customs Cooperation Council
A specialized intergovernmental organization for the study of customs questions. ( Established in 1952, the Council has its headquarters in Brussels. -Abbr. CCC.
Customs Court, U.S
See UNITED STATES CUSTOMS COURT.
Customs and Patent Appeals, Court of
See COURT OF CUSTOMS AND PATENT APPEALS.
U.S. Customs Court
See COURT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE.
Uniform Customs and Practice for Commercial Documentary Credits
A publication of the International Chamber of Commerce that codifies widespread customs of bankers and merchants relating to the mechanics and operation of letters of credit. 0 Courts look to this publication to supplement and help interpret primary sources of credit law, such as UCC Article 5. - Abbr. UCP.
United States Customs Court
A court that formerly heard cases involving customs and duties. 0 Abolished in 1980, its responsibilities have been taken over by the United States
York, custom of
Hist. A custom prevalent in York whereby a male intestate's effects were divided according to the doctrine of pans rationabilis ("a reasonable part") - that is, onethird each to the widow, children, and administrator, one-half to the administrator if the man was married but had no children or was single but had children, or all to the administrator if the man was single with no children.
conventional custom
A custom that operates only indirectly through the medium of agreements, so that it is accepted and adopted in individual instances as conventional law between the parties to those agreements. - Also termed usage. See USAGE.
custom and usage
General rules and practices that have become generally adopted through unvarying habit and common use. Cf. CUSTOM (1); USAGE.
custom of York
See YORK, CUSTOM OF,
customary court baron
See COURT BARON,
customary dispatch
Dispatch that follows the rules, customs, and usages of the port where cargo is discharged.
customary estate
See COPYHOLD.
customary freehold
See COPYHOLD.
customary international law
International law that derives from customary law and serves to supplement codified norms.
customary interpretation
Interpretation based on earlier rulings on the same subject.
customary law
See CUSTOMARY LAW.
customary seisin
See quasi seisin under SEISIN.
customary seisin.
See quasi seisin.
customary tenant
See TENANT.
customer's goods
See GOODS.
customer's man
See registered representative under REPRESENTATIVE.
customer's person
See registered representa. tine under REPRESENTATIVE.
customers' goods. Insurance
Goods belonging to the customers of a fire-insurance policyholder; goods held by a policyholder as a bailee.
customhouse broker
A broker who prepares paperwork for the entry or clearance of ships, and for the import or export of goods. Also termed customs broker.
customs broker
See customhouse broker under BROKER.
customs duty
A duty levied on an imported or exported commodity; esp., the federal tax levied on goods shipped into the United States.
customs frontier
Int'l law. The territorial boundary at which a country imposes customs duties.
customs union
Int'l law. A combination of two or more countries within a single customs area with a common external tariff, though each participating country remains politically independent. 9 The effect is that tariffs originally levied on the traffic of goods between those countries are abolished or else successively dismantled according to an agreed-upon scheme, and that common tariffs are imposed on imports from non-members.
dower by custom
Hist. Dower that is determined by custom rather than the general law."Dower by .. . custom; as that the wife shall have half the husband's lands, or in some places the whole, and in some only a quarter." 2 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 132 (1766).
general custom
See CUSTOM.
heir by custom
Hist. In England, a person whose right of inheritance depends on a particular and local custom, such as gavelkind and borough English. See GAVELHIND; BOROUGH ENGLISH.
heir by custom.
See HEIR.
heriot custom
A heriot due by custom. ( This term is used primarily to distinguish a heriot service from an ordinary heriot.
legal custom
See CUSTOM.
local custom
See CUSTOM.
particular custom
See local custom under CUSTOM.
special custom
See local custom under cusTOM.