Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Assisa de foresta
n. ; l:,v latin "assize of the forest"] hist. A statu?r concerning orders to be observed in the roya forest. - also termed ordinatio forestap; nssisr~ forestae.
Assisa forestae
see assisa ed forestae
Disafforest
vb. [fr. French desaforester] Hist. To free lands from the restrictions of the forest laws and return them to the status of ordinary lands. - Also termed deafforest.
Forest
n. Hist. A tract of land, not necessarily wooded, reserved to the king or a grantee, for hunting deer and other game.
Forestaller
n. Hist. A person who forestalls; one guilty of the offense of forestalling.
Magna Charta et Charta de Foresta sont appeles les deux grandes charters
Magna Carta and the Charter of the Forest are called the two great charters.
afforest
ub. to convert (land) into a forest, by subjecting it to forest law. - afforestataoa:, n.
commissioner o f woods and forests
Hist. An officer who, by an 1817 Act of Parliament, assumed the jurisdiction of the Chief Justice of the Forest.
drift of the forest
Hist. A periodic examination of forest cattle by officers who drive them to an enclosed place to determine their ownership or common status. "Drift of the forest is nothing else but an exact view or examination taken once, twice, or oftener in a year as occasion shall require, what beasts there are in the forest, to the end that the common in the forest be not overcharged, that the beasts of
filum forestae
[Latin] The border of a forest.
forestall
ub. 1. To prevent (an event, result, etc.). 2. Hist. To intercept or obstruct (a person on a royal highway). 3. Hist. To prevent (a tenant) from coming on the premises. 4. Hist. To intercept (a deer reentering a forest). - Also spelled forstall.
forestalling the market
Hist. 1. The taking possession of commodities on their way to the market. 2. The purchase of goods on their way to the market, with the intention of reselling them at a higher price. 3. The dissuasion of sellers from taking their goods to the market, or the persuasion of sellers to increase the price of their goods at the market. ( At common law, forestalling the market was a criminal offense.
forestry right
A land interest under which a person has the right to enter the land, establish and maintain a crop of trees, harvest them, and construct works for that purpose.
ordinatio forestae
, n. See ASSISA DE FORESTA.
vastum forestae vel bosci
Hist. Waste of a forest or wood.