Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
HEW.
abbr. The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, a former agency of the U.S. government created in 1953. ( When the Department of Education was created in 1979, the name HEW was changed to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
half nephew.
The son of one's half brother or half sister.
nephew.
1. The son of a person's brother or sister; sometimes understood to include the son of a person's brother-in-law or sister-in-law. e This term is extended in some wills to include a grandnephew. 2. Hist. A grandchild. 3. Hist. A descendant. "(NJephew ... a son's or daughter's son, a grandson (also ... a granddaughter), later also a brother's or sister's son, a nephew, in general a descendant . . . . The application, as with all other terms denoting relationship beyond the first degree, formerly varied ('grandson,' 'nephew,' 'cousin,' 'kinsman,' etc.); its final exclusive use for 'nephew' instead of 'grandson' is prob. due in part to the fact that, by reason of the great difference in age, a person has comparatively little to do with his grandsons, if he has any, while nephews are proverbially present and attentive, if their uncle is of any importance." 5 The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia 3968 (1895).