Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.

Enlarge

ub. 1. To increase in size or extend in scope or duration <the court enlarged the time allotted for closing arguments>. 2. To free from custody or imprisonment <at common law, an action for escape lay when a prisoner was wrongly enlarged>. - enlargement, n.

enlargement of time

A usu. court-ordered extension of the time allowed to perform an pwtion, esp. a procedural one.

enlarger l'estate

;Law French] A release that enlarges an estate and consists of a conveyance of the ulterior interest to the particular tenant. ( If an estate is held by a tenant for life or years, with the remainder to another in fee, and if the one in remainder releases all rights to the particular tenant and his or her heirs (through an enlarger l'estatei, the tenant then holds the estate in fee