Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Dominus
n. [Latin "lord"] 1. Roman law. An owner of a thing or inheritance. 2. Roman law. The title of the emperor in the later empire. 3. Hist. A lord; a feudal superior, as in dominus rex ("the lord of the king"), dominus capitalis ("a chief lord"), dominus medius ("an intermediate lord"), and dominus ligius ("a liege lord"). 4. Hist. Eccles. law. Lord; sir. 0 This is a title of distinction usu. given to a knight, a clergyman, a lord of a manor, or another gentleman of quality. 5. Civil law. Someone who possesses something by right. Pl. domini.
Dominus capitalis loco haeredis habetur, quoties per defectum vel delictum extinguitur sanguis sui tenentis
The supreme lord takes the place of the heir, as often as the blood of the tenant is extinct through deficiency or crime.
Dominus non maritabit pupillum nisi semel
A lord cannot give a ward in marriage but once.
Dominus rex nullum habere potest parem, multo minus superiorem
The king cannot have an equal, much less a superior.
Nemo ejusdem tenementi simul potest esse haeres et dominus
No one can be at the same time heir and lord of the same tenement.
Nemo potent esse tenens et dominus
No one can be at the same time tenant and landlord (of the same tenement).
Nemo potest esse dominus et haeres
No one can be both owner and heir.
capitalis dominus
[Latin "chief lord"] Hist. A tenant's immediate lord; CHIEF LORD.
de capitalibus dominus feodi
[Law Latin] Hist. From the highest lord of the fee. ( This term was primarily used in old charters to state that the tenure of an estate was to be held of the chief lord of the fee, rather than of the immediate grantor.
dominus litis
n. [Latin] 1. Civil law. The party who makes the decisions in a lawsuit, usu. as distinguished from the attorney. 2. Maritime law. A third person who represents an absent party in a case. - Also termed litis dominium.
dominus navis
n. [Latin] Civil law. The absolute owner of a shipping vessel.
vice-dominus episcopi
. 1. A vicar general. 2. A commissary of a bishop.