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Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.

Liberti

n. pl. [Latin] Roman law. Manumitted slaves, considered in their relation with their former masters, who were known as patrons.

Liberticide

n. 1. The destruction of liberty. 2. A destroyer of liberty.

Liberties

Hist. 1. Privileged districts exempt from the sheriff's jurisdiction. 2. In American colonial times, laws. 3. Political subdivisions of Philadelphia.

Libertini

Manumitted slaves, considered apart from their relation to their patrons. See LIBERTI.

Libertinum ingratum leges civiles in pristinam servitutem redignunt; sed leges Angliae semel manumissum semper liberum judicant

The civil laws reduce an ungrateful freedman to his original slavery; but the laws of England regard a person once manumitted as ever after free.

american civil liberties union

a national organization whose primary purpose is to help enforce and preserve individual rights and liberties guaranteed by federal and state constitutions. - abbr. aclu.

coliberti

See SOCAGE.

gaol liberties

See JAIL LIBERTIES. \

indecent liberties

Improper behavior toward a child, esp. of a sexual nature.

jail liberties

Bounds within which a jail or prison lies and throughout which certain prisoners are allowed to move freely, usu. after giving bond for the liberties. 0 The bounds are considered an extension of the prison walls. Historically, jail liberties were given in England to those imprisoned for debt. The prisoners were allowed to move freely within the city in which the prison was located. - Also spelled gaol liberties. - Also termed jail limits. "[S]tatutes were from time to time passed enlarging the gaol liberties, in order to mitigate the hardships of imprisonment: thus, the whole city of Boston was held the 'gaol liberties' of its county gaol. And so with a large part of New York City .... The prisoner, while within the limits, is considered as within the walls of the prison." -1 John Bouvier, Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1333-34 (8th ed. 1914).