Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Arriere fee
see arriere fee under fee (2).
Assumption fee
a lender's charge for processing records for a new buyer's assumption of an existing mortgage.
Attorney fees
See attorney's fees.
Attorney's fees
The charge to a client for services performed for the client, such as an hourly fee, a flat fee, or a contingent fee. - also spelled attorneys' fees. - also termed attorney fees. Cf. Retainer (2).
Base fee.
see fee (2), fee simple determinable under fee simple.
Fee
1. A charge for labor or services, esp. professional services.
Fee simple conditional
An estate restricted to some specified heirs, exclusive of others (e.g., "to Albert and his female heirs"). ( The fee simple conditional is obsolete except in Iowa, Oregon, and South Carolina. - Also termed general fee conditional. "The reader should be careful not to confuse this estate with estates having similar labels, such as the 'estate in fee simple subject to a condition subsequent' ...." Thomas F. Bergin & Paul G. Haskell, Preface to Estates in Land and Future Interests 29 n.19 (2d ed. 1984).
Feemail
Slang. 1. An attorney's fee extorted by intimidation, threats, or pressure. 2. The act or process of extorting such a fee. Cf. BLACKMAIL; GRAYMAIL; GREENMAIL.
Feoffee
The transferee of an estate in fee simple; the recipient of a fief.
Laws of Amalfi (ah-mahl-fee)
See AMALPHITAN CODE.
Medfee
Hist. A bribe or reward; compensation given for things exchanged of unequal value.
Suitors' Fee Fund
Hist. A fund consisting largely of fees generated by the Court of Chancery out of which the court officers' salaries and expenses were paid. ( In 1869 the fund was transferred to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt. suit papers See COURT PAPERS.
affeer
cb. hist. to fix the amount of an amercement.
affeeror
hist. an official responsible for assessing amercements in cases in which no precise penalty is given by statute.
arriere fee
Hist. A fee dependent on a superior one; a subfief. -Also termed arriere fief.
attorney's fees
See ATTORNEY'S FEES.
base fee
A fee that has some qualification connected to it and that terminates whenever the qualification terminates. ( An example of the words creating a base fee are "to A and his heirs, tenants of the manor of Tinsleydale," which would terminate when A or his heirs are no longer tenants of the manor of Tinsleydale. Among the base fees at common law are the fee simple subject to a condition subsequent and the conditional fee. - Also termed determinable fee; qualified fee; limited fee. See fee simple determinable under FEE SIMPLE.
commitment fee
An amount paid to a lender by a potential borrower for the lender's promise to lend money at a stipulated rate and within a specified time. Commitment fees are common in real estate transactions. See LOAN COMMITMENT.
contingency fee
See CONTINGENT FEE.
contingent fee
See CONTINGENT FEE.
deed in fee
A deed conveying the title to land in fee simple, usu. with covenants.
defeasible fee simple
See fee simple defeasible under FEE SIMPLE.
defense contingent fee
See reverse contingent fee under CONTINGENT FEE.
demesne as o f fee
Hist. Complete ownership of something. "But there is this distinction between the two species of hereditaments: that, of a corporeal inheritance a man shall be said to be seised in his demesne, as of fee; of an incorporeal one, he shall only be said to be seised as of fee, and not in his demesne. For, as incorporeal hereditaments are in their nature collateral to, and issue out of, lands and houses, their owner hath no property, dominicum, or demesne, in the thing itself, but hath only something derived out of it; resembling the seroitutes, or services, of the civil law." 2 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 106 (1766).
determinable fee
1. See fee simple determinable under FEE SIMPLE. 2. See base fee under FEE (2).
division of fees.
See FEE-SPLITTING,
docket fee
A fee charged by a court for filing a claim.
eerti feed check
A depositor's checl. on a bank that guarantees the availability w funds for the check. ( The guarantee may be by the drawee's signed agrPPmF-nt t" nav the draft or by a notation on t certified.
estate in fee simple
See FEE SIMPLE.
expert-witness fee
A fee paid for the professional services of an expert witness.
fee damages
Damages awarded to the owner of abutting property for injury caused by the construction and operation of an elevated railroad. 0 The term is used because the damage is to the property owner's easements of light, air, and access, which are parts of the fee.
fee estate
See FEE (2).
fee expectant
Rare. A fee tail created when land is given to a man and wife and the heirs of their bodies. See FRANKMARRIAGE.
fee farm
Hist. A species of tenure in which land is held in perpetuity at a yearly rent (fee-farm rent), without fealty, homage, or other services than those in the feoffment. - Also termed feodi firms; firma feodi. See EMPHYTEUSIS. "Now to all appearance the term socage, a term not found in Normandy, has been extending itself upwards; a name appropriate to a class of cultivating peasants has begun to include the baron or prelate who holds land at a rent but is not burdened with military service He is sometimes said to have feodum censuale; far more commonly he is said to hold 'in fee farm.' This term has difficulties of its own, for it appears in many different guises; a feoffee is to hold in feofirma, in feufirmam, in fedfirmam, in feudo firmam, in feudo firms, ad firmam feodalem, but most commonly, in feodi firma. The Old English language had both of the words of which this term is compounded, both feoh (property) and feorm (rent); but so had the language of France, and in Norman documents the term may be found in various shapes, firmam fedium, feudifermam. But, whatever may be the precise history of the phrase, to hold in fee farm means to hold heritably, perpetually, at a rent; the fee, the inheritance, is let to farm." 2 Frederick Pollock & Frederic W. Maitland, The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward 1293 (2d ed. 1899).
fee interest
See FEE; FEE SIMPLE; FEE TAIL.
fee sharing
See FEE SPLITTING
fee simple
See FEE SIMPLE.
fee simple absolute
An estate of indefinite or potentially infinite duration (e.g., "to Al-
fee simple defeasible
An estate that ends either because there are no more heirs of the person to whom it is granted or because a special limitation, condition subsequent, or executory limitation takes effect before the line of heirs runs out. - Also termed qualified fee.
fee simple determinable
An estate that will automatically end and revert to the grantor if some specified event occurs (e.g., "to Albert and his heirs while the property is used for charitable purposes"). ( The future interest retained by the grantor is called a possibility of reuerter. - Also termed determinable fee; qualified fee; fee simple subject to common-law limitation; fee simple subject to special limitation; fee simple subject to special interest; base fee; estate on limitation.
fee simple subject to a condition subsequent
An estate subject to the grantor's power to end the estate if some specified event happens (e.g., "to Albert and his heirs, upon condition that no alcohol is sold on the premises"). ( The future interest retained by the grantor is called a power of termination (or a right of entry). - Also termed fee simple on a condition subsequent; fee simple subject to a power of termination; fee simple upon condition.
fee simple subject to a power of termination
See fee simple subject to a condition subsequent.
fee simple subject to an executory limitation
A fee simple defeasible that is subject to divestment in favor of someone other than the grantor if a specified event happens (e.g., "to Albert and his heirs, but if the property is ever used as a parking lot, then to Bob"). -Also termed fee simple subject to an executory interest.
fee simple subject to common-law limitation
See fee simple determinable.
fee simple subject to special interest
See fee simple determinable.
fee simple subject to special limitation
See fee simple determinable.
fee simple upon condition
See fee simple subject to a condition subsequent.
fee statement
A lawyer's bill for services either already rendered or to be rendered, usu. including itemized expenses.
fee tail
An estate that is inheritable only by specified descendants of the original grantee, and that endures until its current holder dies without issue (e.g., "to Albert and the heirs of his body"). ( Most jurisdictions - except Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island - have abolished the fee tail. - Also termed entailed estate; estate tail; tenancy in tail; entail; feodum talliatum. See ENTAIL; TAIL. "The name fee tail comes from the French tailler (to carve) and probably meant that the grantor was able to carve a fee to his exact prescription. This carving could be carried to great lengths and the land could be limited to male descendants generally - fee tail male general; to female issue - fee tail female; or to issue of a specific wife - fee tail special. In the latter case, if the specified wife died, the holder of the estate was said to have a fee tail with possibility of issue extinct - a type of life estate." John E. Cribbet, Principles of the Lace of Property 47 (2d ed. 1975). "If we cannot resist the temptation to say that De Donis permitted the creation of tailor-made estates, we can at least argue that it is not a pun. Our word 'tailor' and the word 'tail,' as used in 'fee tail,' come from the same source - the French tailler, to cut. The word 'tail' in 'fee tail' has nothing to do with that which wags the dog. The estate in fee tail was a cut estate - either cut in the sense that the collateral heirs were cut out, or cut in the sense that the estate was carved into a series of discrete life-possession periods to be enjoyed successively by A and his lineal heirs .... We know of no state in the United States that recognizes the estate in fee tail in its strict 1285-1472 form. Wherever it is recognized, the tenant in tail in possession may disentail it by simple deed. In a number of states, the estate in fee tail has been abolished." Thomas F. Bergin & Paul G. Haskell, Preface to Estates in Land and Future Interests 30, 32 (2d ed. 1984).
fee-farm rent
1. The rent reserved, usu. onefourth or one-third of the land's value, on granting a fee farm. 2. A rent charge issuing out of a fee estate. 3. A perpetual rent on a conveyance in fee simple.