Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Feudum
[Law Latin] A fief or feud; a feodum. - Also termed feodum; feum. Pl. feuda (fyoo-da). See FEUD (1); FIEF; FEE (2). "The Latin equivalent of feodum or feudum is the root of the words 'feudal' and 'subinfeudation'. The French form fief is favoured by some English historians, but it was not used in law-French." J.H. Baker, An Introduction to English Legal History 256 n.4 (3d ed. 1990).
feudum antiquum
n. [Law Latin "ancient feud"] Hist. 1. A feud that passed to a vassal from an intestate ancestor. 2. A feud that ancestors had possessed for more than four generations. 3. An ancient feud. Pl. feuda antiqua (fyoo-da an-ti-kwa). - Also termed feodum antiquum (fee-a-dam or fyoo-dam). See FEUD (1).
feudum apertum
Hist. A feud that reverted to the lord because of a tenant's failure of issue, a crime by the tenant, or some other legal cause. - Also termed feodum apertum.
feudum francium
Hist. A free feud; a feud or fee that was noble and free from talliage and subsidies that vulgar feuds (plebeia feuda) were subject to.
feudum hauberticum
Hist. A feud that was held on the military service of appearing fully armed when summoned by the lord. See ARRIERBAN.
feudum improprium
Hist. A feud that was improper or derivative.
feudum indiaiduum
Hist. A feud that was indivisible and descendible only to the eldest son.
feudum laicum
Hist. A lay feud. - Also termed feodum laicum.
feudum ligium
Hist. 1. A liege feud; a feud held immediately of the sovereign. 2. A feud for which the vassal owed fealty to his lord against all other persons.
feudum maternum
Hist. A feud that descended to the feudatory from the maternal side.
feudum militare
Hist. A knight's feud. ( It was held by knight service and esteemed the most honorable species of tenure. - Also termed feodum militis; (in Norman law) fief d'haubert or fief d'hauberk.
feudum nobile
Hist. A feud for which the tenant did guard and owed fealty and homage. - Also termed feodum nobile.
feudum novum
Hist. 1. A new feud. 2. A feud beginning in the person of the feudatory rather than by succession. - Also spelled feodum novum.
feudum novum ut antiquum
Hist. A new feud held with the qualities of an ancient feud.
feudum paternum
Hist. 1. A feud that the tenant's paternal ancestors had held for four generations. 2. A feud descendible only to the heirs on the paternal side. 3. A feud that could be held only by males.
feudum proprium
Hist. An original feud that is military in nature and held by military service.
feudum talliatum
See FEE TAIL.