Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Daughter
1.A parent's female child. 2. A female descendant. 3. A female child in a parentchild relationship.
Duke of Exeter's Daughter
A torture rack in the tower of London, named after the Duke of Exeter, Henry VI's minister who assisted in introducing it to England. - Also termed brake. "The rack . . . to extort a confession from criminals, is a practice of a different nature . . . . And the trial by rack is utterly unknown to the law of England; though once when the dukes of Exeter and Suffolk ... had laid a design to introduce the civil law into this kingdom as the rule of government, for a beginning thereof they erected a rack for torture; which was called in derision the duke of Exeter's daughter, and still remains in the tower of London: where it was occasionally used as an engine of state, not of law, more than once in the reign of queen Elizabeth." 4 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 320-21 (1769).
daughter-in-law
The wife of one's son.