Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Distringas
n. [Law Latin "you are to distrain"] 1. A writ ordering a sheriff to distrain a defendant's property to compel the defendant to perform an obligation, such as appearing in court or giving up a chattel to a plaintiff awarded judgment in a detinue action. 2. A writ ordering the sheriff to seize jurors' goods to compel them to appear for jury service. 3. An equitable process of execution against a corporate body that has refused to obey a summons. 4. Hist. An order, issued initially from the Court of Exchequer, then the Court of Chancery, and finally the High Court of Justice, for someone interested in purchasing Bank of England stock, temporarily restraining the bank officers from transferring the stock or paying a dividend on it. 0 This proceeding was used to prevent fraudulent dealing by a trustee or other stockholder. The relief was only temporary, and if the bank received a request from the stockholder to permit a stock deal, the bank had to warn the distringing party to promptly obtain a restraining order or a writ of injunction, or else the stock deal would go through.
distringas juratores
n. [Law Latin "you are to distrain the jurors"] Hist. A writ ordering the sheriff to distrain jurors or their property to compel their appearance before the judges of assize and nisi prius for jury duty on an appointed day.
distringas nuper aicecomitem
n. [Law Latin "you are to distrain the late sheriff"] Hist. 1. A writ ordering a sheriff's successor to distrain the former sheriff's property until the former sheriff' brings in a defendant to answer the plaintiff's charge, sells goods attached under a fieri facias, or performs some other obligation that the former sheriff should have completed while still in office. 2. A writ calling on an exsheriff to account for the proceeds taken in execution.
distringas vice comitem
n. [Law Latin "you are to distrain the sheriff"] Hist. A distringas writ ordering the coroner to distrain the sheriff for not executing a writ of uenditioni exponas. See VENDITIONI EXPONAS.