Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Assets by descent
The portion of an estate that passes to an heir and is sufficient to charge the heir with the decedent's specialty debts. - also termed assets per descent.
Assets per descent
see assets by descent under asset.
Canon of descent.
See canon
Descent
n. 1. The acquisition of real property by law, as by inheritance; the passing of intestate real property to heirs. See SUCCESSION (2). Cf. DISTRIBUTION (1); PURCHASE (2). 2. The fact or process of originating from a common ancestor. - descend, ub.
canon of descent.
A common-law rule governing intestate succession. 0 In England, canons of descent tended to concentrate landholdings in the hands of a few people, an approach generally rejected in the United States. - Also termed canon of inheritance.
collateral descent
Descent in a collateral or oblique line, from brother to brother or cousin to cousin. ( With collateral descent, the donor and donee are related through a common ancestor. direct-line descent. See lineal descent.
descent cast
Hist. The devolution of realty that has been acquired by disseisin, abatement, or intrusion, upon an heir whose ancestor died intestate. 0 This tolled the real owner's right of entry until the owner brought a legal action. -Also termed descent which tolls entry.
immediate descent
1. A descent directly to an heir, as from a grandmother to granddaughter, brought about by the earlier death of the mother. 2. A direct descent without an intervening link in consanguinity, as from mother to daughter.
lineal descent
Descent in a direct or straight line, as from father or grandfather to son or grandson. - Also termed direct-line descent.
maternal-line descent
See DESCENT.
mediate descent
1. A descent not occurring immediately, as when a granddaughter receives land from her grandmother, which first passed to the mother. 2. A direct descent occurring through a link in consanguinity, as when a granddaughter receives land from her grandfather directly."The law categorizes descents as either lineal or collateral, and as mediate or immediate. The term mediate or immediate descent may denote either the passing of the estate, or the relationship between the intestate and the heir. The classification of des
paternal-line descent
Descent between two persons, traced through the father of the younger.
riens per descent
[Law French "nothing by descent"] Hist. The plea of an heir who is sued for the ancestor's debt and who received no land or assets from the ancestor.
title by descent
A title that one acquires by law as an heir of the deceased owner.