Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Livelode
Archaic. Livelihood; maintenance. Also termed lifelode.
Lode
n. 1. MINERAL LODE. 2. LADE.
Lodemanage
n. Hist. The hiring of a pilot to guide a vessel. - Also termed loadmanage.
Lodestar
1 A guiding star; an inspiration or model. 2. A reasonable amount of attorney's fees in a given case, usu. calculated by multiplying a reasonable number of hours worked by the prevailing hourly rate in the community for similar work, and often considering such additional factors as the degree of skill and difficulty involved in the case, the degree of its urgency, its novelty, and the like. ( Most statutes that authorize an award of attorney's fees use the lodestar method for computing the award.
alode
see allodium
lifelode
See LIVELODE.
lode claim
A mining claim (on public land) to a well-defined vein embedded in rock; a mining claim to a mineral lode.
mineral lode.
A mineral bed of rock with definite boundaries in a general mass of a mountain; any belt of mineralized rock lying within boundaries that clearly separate it from neighboring rock. - Also termed lode. "Typically, a lode is a concentration of valuable mineral with boundaries sufficiently distinct to import such a definite trend, continuity, and apartness to the formation that it can be traced through the enclosing mass of rock." 1 American Law of Mining ยง 32.02(2), at 32-7 (2d ed. 1998).