Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Enfranchise
ub. 1. To grant voting rights or other rights of citizenship to (a person or class). 2. To set free, as from slavery.
disenfranchise
To deprive (a person) of the right to exercise a franchise or privilege, esp. to vote- - Also termed disfranchise.
disenfranchisement
1. The act of depriving a member of a corporation or other organization of a right, as by expulsion. 2. The act of taking away the right to vote in public elections from a citizen or class of citizens. - Also termed disfranchisement.
enfranchisement
n. 1. The granting of voting rights or other rights of citizenship to a class of persons. 2. The act of making free, as from slavery.
enfranchisement of copyhold
Hist. The conversion of copyhold into freehold tenure, by (1) a conveyance of the fee simple from the lord of the manor to the copyholder, (2) a release from the lord of all seigniorial rights, or (3) a release by the copyholder to the lord of the copyholder's interest in the estate. See COPYHOLD.