Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Derelict
n. 1. Personal property abandoned or thrown away by the owner with an intent to no longer claim it, such as a boat deserted or abandoned at sea by a master or crew.
Occupantis hunt derelicta
Things abandoned become the property of the (first) occopant
derelict
adj. 1. Forsaken; abandoned; cast away <derelict property>.
dereliction
n. 1. Abandonment, esp. through neglect or moral wrong.dereliction in the performance of duties. Military law. Willful or negligent failure to perform assigned duties; culpable inefficiency in performing assigned duties. 2. An increase of land caused by the receding of a sea, river, or stream from its usual watermark. See RELICTION.
pro derelicto
[latin] As derelict or abandoned. ( This refers to proper subject to usucaption. See USUCAPIo.
quasi-derelict
A ship that has been abandoned temporarily or involuntarily. 2. Land uncovered by receding water from its former bed. 3. A street person or vagrant; a hobo.
quasi-derelict.
temporarily or involuntarily deserted or abandoned, as when the crew is dead or otherwise incapable of navigating the ship.2. Lacking a sense of duty; in breach of a legal or moral obligation <the managers were unquestionably derelict in their duties>.
res derelicta
[Latin] A thing thrown away or forsaken by its owner; abandoned property.