Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
A family, including household servants
"Familia A family or household, including servants, that is, hired persons (mercenarii or conductitii,) as well as bondsmen, and all who were under the authority of one master, (dominus.) Bracton uses the word in the original sense, as denoting servants or domestics." 1 Alexander M. Burrill, A Law Dictionary and Glossary 603-04 (2d ed. 1867)
Family
n. 1. A group consisting of parents and their children. - Also termed immediate family. 2. A group of persons connected by blood, by affmity, or by law. 3. A group of persons, usu. relatives, who live together. - familial, adj. See RELATIVE.
Family Division
English law. A section of the High Court that has jurisdiction over family matters such as divorce and custody and over uncontested probate matters.
extended family
The immediate family together with the collateral relatives who make up a clan; GENS.
family allowance
a portion of a decedent's estate set aside by statute for a surviving spouse, children, or parents, regardless of any testamentary disposition or competing claims.
family arrangement
An informal agreement among family members, usu. to distribute property in a manner other than what the law provides for. - Also termed family settlement.
family court
A court having jurisdiction over matters involving divorce, child custody and support, paternity, domestic violence, and other family-law issues. - Also termed domestic-relations court; court of domestic relations; domestic court.
family disturbance
See DOMESTIC DISPUTE.
family farmer
A person or entity whose income and debts primarily arise from a family-owned and-operated farm; esp., person who received more than 80% of gross income from a farm in the taxable year immediately preceding a Chapter 12 filing. ( Only a family farmer can file for Chapter 12 bankruptcy. 11 USCA § 101(18). See CHAPTER 12.
family law
The body of law dealing with marriage, divorce, adoption, child custody and support, and other domestic-relations issues. -Also termed domestic relations; domestic-relations law.
family leave
An unpaid leave of absence from work taken to have or care for a baby or to care for a sick family member.
family meeting
Civil law. 1. An advisory jury called to aid the court in a family-law matter. 2. A council of relatives of a minor assembled to advise the minor in his or her affairs and to help administer the minor's property.
family of nations
Int'l law. The community of countries to which international law applies. ( This term is now obsolescent. It is increasingly rejected as Eurocentric. "'The family of nations' is an aggregate of States which, as the result of their historical antecedents, have inherited a common civilisation, and are at a similar level of moral and political opinion." Thomas E. Holland, The Elements of Jurisprudence 396 (13th ed. 1924).
family partnership
A partnership that includes family members. IRC (26 USCA) § 704(e). See FAMILY-PARTNERSHIP RULES.
family settlement
See FAMILY ARRANGEMENT.
family-automobile doctrine
See FAMILY-PURPOSE RULE.
family-car doctrine
See FAMILY-PURPOSE RULE.
family-expense statute
1. A state law that permits a charge against the property of aspouse for family debts such as rent, food, clothing, and tuition. 2. A federal tax-code provision providing that a person may not deduct expenses incurred for family, living, or personal purposes. IRC (26 USCA) § 262.
family-farmer bankruptcy
See CHAPTER 12.
family-income insurance
See INSURANCE.
family-partnership rules
Laws designed to prevent the shifting of income among partners, esp. family members, who may not be dealing at arm's length.
family-purpose rule
Torts. The principle that a vehicle's owner is liable for injuries or dam age caused by a family member's negligent driving. ( Many states have abolished this rule. - Also termed family purpose doctrine;family-automobile doctrine; family-car doctrine. Cf. GUEST STATUTE. "A number of jurisdictions have adopted the so-called 'family purpose' doctrine, under which the owner of a motor vehicle purchased or maintained for the pleasure of his family is liable for injuries inflicted by the negligent operation of the vehicle while it is being used by members of the family for their own pleasure, on the theory that the vehicle is being used for the purpose or business for which it was kept, and that the person operating it is therefore acting as the owner's agent or servant in using it." 8 Am. Jur. 2d Automobiles and Highway Traffic § 715, at 296 (1997).
immediate family
A person's parents, spouse, children, and siblings.
immediate family.
See FAMILY.