Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Artificial day
see day.
Astronomical day
see solar day (2) under day.
Banking day
1. Banking hours on a day when a bank is open to the public for carrying on substantially all its banking functions. ( typically, if the bookkeeping and loan departments are closed by a certain hour, the remainder of that day is not part of that bank's banking day. 2. A day on which banks are open for banking business.
Day
1 Any 24-hour period; the time it takes the earth to revolve once on its axis <we have a day to prepare a mandamus petition>. 2. The period between the rising and the setting of the sun <day or night>. - Also termed natural clay. 3. Sunlight <we can see it in the day>. 4. The period when the sun is above the horizon, along with the period in the early morning and late evening when a person's face is discernible. 5. Any specified time period, esp. as distinguished from other periods <the good old days> <a day's work>. - Also termed (in senses 2, 3, and 4) daytime. Cf. NIGHT.
Daybook
A merchant's original record of daily transactions.
Daysman
Hist. 1. An arbitrator; an elected judge; an umpire. 2. A day laborer. -Also spelled deiesman.
Daywork
1 Short-term employment that is intended to last only for a day, or for a few days. 2. Hist. In England, a measure of land being the amount of arable land that can be plowed in a day. - Also termed daywere.
Domesday Book
The census or survey, ordered by William the Conqueror and substantially completed in 1086, of England', landholdings, buildings, people, and livestock. - Abbr. D.B. - Also spelled Doomsdov Book.
Doomsday book.
See DOMESDAY BOOK.
Ember Days
Eccles. law. The days - which the ancient church fathers called quatuor tempora jejunii - that are observed on the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday following (1) Quadragesima Sunday (the first Sunday in Lent), (2) Whitsuntide, or Holyrood Day, in September, and (3) St. Lucy's day, about the middle of December. ( Almanacs refer to the weeks in which these days fall as Ember Weeks; they are now chiefly noticed because, by tradition, the Sundays following Ember Days are used to ordain priests and deacons, although the canon allows bishops to ordain on any Sunday or holiday.
Friday market
The normal tendency for stock-prices to decline on Fridays. ( The tendency occurs because many investors balance their accounts before the weekend to avoid any adverse changes in market prices over the weekend.
Friday market.
See MARKET.
Grand Day. English law
1. Hist. One of four holy days on which the courts are not in session. ( Each of the four court terms had a Grand Day. The four Grand Days were Candlemas Day (February 2), Ascension Day (March 25), St. John the Baptist Day (June 24), and All Saints' Day (November 1). The Inns of Court and of Chancery ceremoniously observed each Grand Day. 2. A day in each term on which the Benchers of the Inns of Court host ceremonial dinners in their halls. See BENCHER. Cf TERM
Lord's Day Act
See BLUE LAW.
Saturday-night special
1. A handgun that is easily obtained and concealed. 2. Corporations. A surprise tender offer typically held open for a limited offering period (such as one week) to maximize pressure on a shareholder to accept. ( These tender offers are now effectively prohibited by section 14(e) of the Williams Act. 15 USCA § 78n(e).
Sunday law
See BLUE LAW.
Sunday-closing law
See BLUE LAW.
adjournment day
1 The day on which an organization, such as a court or legislature, adjourns. 2. Hist. A later day appointed by the judges at regular sittings at nisi prius to try an issue of fact not then ready for trial.
adjournment day in error
see day
adjournment day.
See day
affirmance day general
Hist. In the Court of Exchequer, a day appointed after the beginning of every term to affirm or reverse judgments.
answer day
The last day for a defendant to file and serve a responsive pleading in a lawsuit. ( Under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, a defendant generally must serve an answer (1) within 20 days after being served with the summons and complaint, or (2) if a defendant timely waives service at the plaintiffs request, within 60 days after the request for waiver was sent. Fed. R. Civ. P. 4(d), 12(a). - Also termed answer date; appearance date; appearance day.
appearance day
see answer day under day.
artificial day
The period from the rising to the setting of the sun. - Also termed solar day; dies solaris.
astronomical day
See solar day (2).
banking day
See BANKING DAY.
boon day
(usu. pl.) Hist. One of several days in the year when copyhold tenants were obliged to perform base services for the lord (such as reaping corn) without pay. - Also termed due day."Charter-land is such as a man holds by charter, that is, by evidence in writing, which otherwise is called freehold .... [T]his land was held with more easy and commodious conditions, than folkland and copy-hold land held without writing; . . . it is a free and absolute inheritance; whereas land without writing is charged with payment and bondage; so that for the most part noblemen and persons of quality possess the former, and rustics the other. The first we call freehold and by charter: the other, land at the will of the lord." Termes de la Ley 80 (1st. Am. ed. 1812). "Prior to the Conquest, property in land was divided into bocland, folcland, and laenland. The exact nature of these rights has been disputed, but probably bocland was held by owners of high station claiming under a charte
business day
A day that most institutions are open for business, usu. a day on which banks and major stock exchanges are open, excluding Saturdays and Sundays.
calendar day
A consecutive 24-hour day running from midnight to midnight. - Also termed natural day.
civil day
See artificial day under DAY.
common day
In England, an ordinary court day.
common-return days
See dies communes in banco under DIES.
costs of the day
Costs incurred in preparing for trial.
court day
A day on which a particular court is open for court business.
day in court
1 The right and opportunity, in a judicial tribunal, to litigate a claim, seek relief, or defend one's rights. 2. The right to be noti fied and given an opportunity to appear and to be heard when one's case is called.
day loan
A short-term loan to a broker to finance daily transactions.
day order
An order to buy or sell on one particular day only. Cf. open order.
day rule
See DAY WRIT.
day trading
The act or practice of buying and selling stock shares or other securities on the same day, esp. over the Internet, usu. for the purpose of making a quick profit on the difference between the buying price and the selling price.
day writ
English law. A Queen's Bench writ allowing a prisoner to leave prison to conduct business (such as attending trial at the Court of Assizes), as long as the prisoner returns by 9:00 p.m. - Also termed day rule.
days in bank
Particular days set aside by the Court of Common Pleas for specific matters, including the appearance of parties and service of process. - Also termed dies in banco. "There are in each of these terms stated days called days in bank, dies in banco; that is, days of appearance in the court of common pleas. They are generally at the distance of about a week from each other, and regulated by some festival of the church. On some one of these days in bank all original writs must be made returnable . . . . " 3 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 277 (1768).
days of grace
See DAY (2), (3), (4).
dedication day
Hist. A day on which people from several villages gathered in one place to celebrate the feast day of the saint and patron of a church.
due days
See BOON DAY.
entire day
An undivided day, rather than parts of two or more days aggregated to form a 24-hour period. ( An entire day must have a legal, fixed, precise time to begin and end. A statute referring to an entire day contemplates a 24-hour period beginning and ending at midnight.
essoin day
Hist. English law. The first general return day of the term, when the courts sat to receive essoins. ( By the Law Terms Act (1830), essoin days were eliminated as a part of the term. St. 11 Geo. 4; 1 Will. 4, ch. 70, § 6.
ferial day
Hist. 1. A day free from labor, pleading, and service of process; a holiday. 2. A working day, under a 1449 statute (27 Hen. 6, ch. 5).
forty-days court
See COURT OF ATTACHMENTS.
go hence without day
(Of a defendant to a lawsuit) to be finished with legal proceedings without any further settings on the court's calendar. 0 Thus, a defendant who "goes hence without day" succeeds in getting a case finally resolved, usu. by dismissal. The phrase derives from the Law French phrase alley sans jour, and over time defendants came to use it to request that the case against them be dismissed without the necessity of a day in court. -Sometimes shortened to go without day; without day. See SINE DIE.
intake day
The day on which new cases are assigned to the courts.