Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Commission of Gaol Delivery
Hist. A royal appointment authorizing a judge to go on the assize circuit and hear all criminal cases of those held in county jails. See JAIL DELIVERY. Cf COMMISSION OF OYER AND TERMINER.
Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Gaol Delivery
Hist. 1. A court that carries the commissions of oyer and terminer and gaol delivery. 2. In Pennsylvania, a court of criminal jurisdiction.
Delivery
n. 1. The formal act of transferring or conveying something, such as a deed; the giving or yielding possession or control of something to another. 2. The thing so transferred or conveyed. - deliver, vb. Cf. LIVERY.
Livery
The delivery of the possession of real property. Cf. DELIVERY.
Nondelivery
A failure to transfer or convey something, such as goods. Cf. DELIVERY.
Redelivery
An act or instance of giving back or returning something; restitution. redelivery bond See replevin bond under BOND (2).
Unlivery
Maritime law. The unloading of cargo at its intended destination. unmarketable title See TITLE (2).
absolute delivery
A delivery that is complete upon the actual transfer of the instrument from the grantor's possession. ( Such a delivery usu. does not depend on recordation.
actual delivery
The act of giving real and immediate possession to the buyer or the buyer's agent.
actual delivery.
See DELIVERY. actual escape. See ESCAPE (2).
claim and delivery
A claim for the recovery of specific personal property wrongfully taken or detained, as well as for any damages caused by the taking or detention. ( This claim derives from the common-law action of replevin.
commission of nnlivery
Hist. A court order requiring the unloading of goods from a ship so that they may be appraised.
conditional delivery
A delivery that passes possession only upon the happening of a specified event.
constructive delivery
An act that amounts to a transfer of title by operation of law when actual transfer is impractical or impossible. 0 For example, the delivery of a deposit-box key by someone who is ill and immobile amounts to a constructive delivery of the box's contents even though the box may be miles away. For the three traditional types of constructive delivery, see ATTORNMENT; CONSTITUTUM POSSESSORIUM; TRADITIO BREVI MANU.
conversion by wrongful delivery
Conversion by depriving an owner of goods by delivering them to someone else so as to change the possession.
delivery bond
See forthcoming bond under BOND (2).
delivery bond.
See forthcoming bond.
delivery in escrow
The physical transfer of something to an escrow agent to be held until some condition is met, at which time the agent will release it. 0 An example of such a delivery is a stock buyer's transfer of cash to a bank that will give the seller the cash upon receiving the stock certificates. This type of delivery creates immediate conditional rights in the promisee. The device may be used to create an option contract in which the promisee has the option. See ESCROW.
delivery of deed
The placing of a deed in the grantee's hands or within the grantee's control. e By this act, the grantor shows an intention that the deed operates immediately as a conveyance.
delivery order
A written order to deliver goods, directed to a warehouseman, carrier, or other person who ordinarily issues warehouse receipts or bills of lading. UCC § 7-102(1)(d).
drop-shipment delivery
A manufacturer's shipment of goods directly to the consumer rather than initially to a wholesaler. ( If the wholesaler takes the order, it may receive part of the profit from the sale.
failure to make delivery
See FAILURE.
feoffment with livery of seisin
See FEOFFMENT (1).
gaol delivery.
See JAIL DELIVERY
general jail delivery
Collectively, acquittals in high numbers as a result of either lax or reckless administration of the law or defects in the law.
good delivery
Securities. The basic conditions for delivery of a security, including that (1) the certificate is in good condition, (2) the certificate belongs to the person transferring it, (3) the certificate is properly indorsed, and (4) any legal documents necessary for negotiability must accompany the certificate.
jail delivery
1. An escape by several prisoners from a jail. 2. Hist. A clearing procedure by which all prisoners at a given jail are tried for the offenses that they are accused of having committed. 3. Hist. The commission issued to judges of assize, directing them to clear a jail by trying - and either acquitting or condemning - all the inmates. 4. Archaic. The court charged with the trial of all ordinary criminal cases. See COMMISSION OF GAOL DELIVERY.
lie in livery
ub. Hist. (Of corporeal hereditaments) to be passable by livery of seisin rather than by deed.
livery in chivalry
Hist. The delivery of possession of real property from a guardian to a ward in chivalry when the ward reached majority.
livery of seisin
Hist. The ceremony by which a grantor conveyed land to a grantee. ( Livery of seisin involved either (1) going on the land and having the grantor symbolically deliver possession of the land to the grantee by handing over a twig, a clod of dirt, or a piece of turf (called livery in deed) or (2) going within sight of the land and having the grantor tell the grantee that possession was being given, followed by the grantee's entering the land (called livery in law). See SEISIN. "[W]e may now pause to wonder how transfer of these potentially infinite interests was accomplished. Without a modern system of land records, it would be desirable that the transfer be effected with sufficient ceremony not only to mark itself indelibly in the memories of the participants, but also to give notice to interested persons such as the mesne lord above the transferor. The central idea was to make ritual livery (meaning
livery of seisin.
See LIVERY OF SEISIN.
livery office
An office designated for the delivery of lands.
manual delivery
Delivery of personal property by actual and corporeal change in possession.
misdelivery
Delivery not according to the contractual specifications.
place of delivery
The place where goods sold are to be sent by the seller. ( If no place is specified in the contract, the seller's place of business is usu. the place of delivery. UCC § 2-308.
port of delivery
The port that is the terminus of any particular voyage and where the ship unloads its cargo.
redelivery bond.
See replevin bond.
second delivery
See DELIVERY.
symbolic delivery
The constructive delivery of the subject matter of a sale by the actual delivery of an article that represents the item, that renders access to it possible, or that provides evidence of the purchaser's title to it, such as the key to a warehouse or a bill of lading for goods on shipboard.
take delivery
To receive something purchased or ordered; esp., to receive a commodity under a futures contract or spot-market contract, or to receive securities recently purchased.
tender of delivery
ee TENDER
unconditional delivery
A delivery that immediately passes both possession and title and that takes effect immediately.