Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Gang
A group of persons who go about together or act in concert, esp. for antisocial or criminal purposes. 0 Many gangs (esp. those made up of adolescents) have common identifying signs and symbols, such as hand signals and distinctive colors. - Also termed street gang.
Gangland
The world of criminal gangs and or. ganized crime.
Gangster
A member of a criminal gang or an organized-crime syndicate.
chain gang
A group of prisoners chained together to prevent their escape while working outside a prison.
morgangiva
, n. [Law Latin "moving gift"] Hist. A gift made to the bride on the morning after the wedding; a type of dowry. - Also spelled morgangina.
oxgang
. Hist. An amount of land equal to what an ox plows in one year, usu. 12 to 15 acres. ( An oxgang, equaling one-eighth of a carucate, was used to assess land for tax purposes. - Also termed oxgate; bouata terrae. Cf. CARUCATE.
street gang.
See GANG.