Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Grant
n. 1. An agreement that creates a right of any description other than the one held by the grantor. ( Examples include leases, easements, charges, patents, franchises, powers, and licenses. 2. The formal transfer of real property. 3. The document by which a transfer is effected; esp., DEED. 4. The property or property right so transferred.
Parte quacumque integrante sublata, tollitur totum
When any essential part has been removed, the whole is removed (or destroyed).
Regrant
n. The act or an instance of granting something again; the renewal of a grant (as of property). - regrant, ub.
Vagrant
dj. 1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a vagrant; inclined to vagrancy. 2. Nomadically homeless.
Vagrantism
See VAGRANCY.
alien immigrant
An immigrant who has not yet been naturalized.
block grant.
An unrestricted grant of federal funds.
derogation from grant
A provision in an instrument of transfer (such as a deed) that diminishes, avoids, or otherwise operates against the grant itself.
emigrant
n. One who leaves his or her country for any reason with the intent to establish a permanent residence elsewhere. Cf. IMMIGRANT.
emigrant agent
one engaged in the business of hiring laborers for work outside the country or state.
fine sur done, grant et render
[Law French "fine upon gift, grant and render"] Hist. A double conveyance, consisting of a fine sur cognizance de droit come ceo que il ad de son done and a fine sur concessit, used to convey particular limitations of estates. 0 For example, after acknowledgment of the cognizee's right in the land, the cognizee would grant back to the cognizor or a third party some other estate in the land. See FINE (1).
flagrante bello
[Latin] During an actual state of war.
flagrante delicto
See IN FLAGRANTE DELICTO.
grant deed
A deed containing, or having implied by law, some but not all of the usual covenants of title; esp., a deed in which the grantor warrants that he or she (1) has not previously conveyed the estate being granted, (2) has not encumbered the property except as noted in the deed, and (3) will convey to the grantee any title to the property acquired after the date of the deed.
grant deed.
See DEED.
grant to uses.
Hist. A conveyance of legal title to real property to one person for the benefit of another. ( If, for example, A conveyed land to B and his heirs to the use of C and his heirs, B -the feoffee to uses - acquired seisin in and had possession of the land and was considered the legal owner. C - the cestui que use - was considered the equitable owner of the land and was entitled to the land's rents, profits, and benefits. Because the cestui que use did not have seisin in the land, he was not subject to feudal payments. From the 13th century forward, the grant to uses was an increasingly popular mode of conveyance. See CESTUI QUE USE; STATUTE OF USES; USE (4).
grant-in-aid.
1. A sum of money given by a governmental agency to a person or institution for a specific purpose; esp., federal funding for a state public program. 2. Hist. AID (1).
grantback, n.
A license-agreement provision requiring the licensee to assign or license back to the licensor any improvements that the licensee might make to a patent or other proprietary right.
grantee-grantor index.
See INDEX (1).
grantee.
One to whom property is conveyed.
granting clause.
The words that transfer an interest in a deed or other instrument, esp. an oil-and-gas lease. a In an oil-and-gas lease, the granting clause typically specifies the rights transferred, the uses permitted, and the substances covered by the lease.
grantor trust
A trust in which the settlor retains control over the trust property or its income to such an extent that the settlor is taxed on the trust's income. See Clifford trust.
grantor trust.
See TRUST.
grantor's lien
See vendor's lien.
grantor's lien.
See vendor's lien under LIEN
grantor-grantee index
An index, usu. kept in the county recorder's office, alphabetically listing by grantor the volume and page number of the grantor's recorded property transactions.
grantor.
1. One who conveys property to another. 2. SETTLOR (1). grantor-grantee index. See INDEX (1).
immigrant.
A person who arrives in a country to settle there permanently; a person who immigrates.
in lagrante delicto
[Latin "while the crime is ablaze"] In the very act of committing a crime or other wrong; red-handed <the sheriff caught them in flagrante delicto>.
land grant
A donation of public land to an individual, a corporation, or a subordinate government.
license coupled with the grant of an interest
See license coupled with an interest under LICENSE.
lie in grant
ub. Hist. (Of incorporeal hereditaments) to be passable by deed or charter without the ceremony of livery of seisin.
migrant worker
Int'Z law. A person who works seasonally as an agricultural laborer in a foreign country.
office grant
A grant made by a legal officer because the owner is either unwilling or unable to execute a deed to pass title, as in the case of a tax deed. See tax deed under DEED.
office grant.
See GRANT.
private land grant
A land grant to a natural person. See land patent under PATENT (1).
public grant
See PATENT (2).