Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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Dedication
n Property. The donation of land or creation of an easement for public use. - dedicate, vb. - dedicatory, adj.
common-law dedication
A dedication made without a statute, consisting in the owner's appropriation of land, or an easement in it, for the benefit or use of the public, and the acceptance, by or on behalf of the land or easement. - Often shortened to dedication. ting a debtor in pieces"] Roman law. The title of a law in the Twelve Tables, meaning either literally to cut a debtor into pieces or merely to divide the debtor's estate. See TWELVE TABLES. "DE DEBITORE IN PARTES SECANDO .... [S]ome writers contending for the literal signification, while others have supposed it to be only a figurative expression The latter view has been adopted by Montesquieu, Bynkershoek, Heineccius and Taylor The literal meaning, on the other hand, is advocated by Aulus Gellius and other writers of antiquity, and receives support from an expression (semoto omni cruciatu) in the Roman Code itself This is also the opinion of Gibbon, Gravina, Pothier, Hugo and Niebuhr." 1 Alexander Burrill, A Law Dictionary and Glossary 432 (2d ed. 1867).
dedication and reservation
A dedication made with reasonable conditions, restrictions, and limitations. dedication day See DAY.
dedication by adverse user
A dedication arising from the adverse, exclusive use by the public with the actual or imputed knowledge and acquiescence of the owner.
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.
express dedication
A dedication explicitly manifested by the owner.
implied dedication
A dedication presumed by reasonable inference from the owner's conduct.
statutory dedication
A dedication for which the necessary steps are statutorily pre-scribed, all of which must be substantially followed for an effective dedication.
tacit dedication
See DEDICATION.