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Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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

Mutation

n. A significant and basic alteration; esp., in property law, the alteration of a thing's status, such as from separate property to community property. - mutate, vb. - mutational, adj.

commutation

n. 1. An exchange or replacement. 2. Criminal law. The executive's substitution in a particular case of a less severe punishment for a more severe one that has already been judicially imposed on the defendant. Cf. PARDON; REPRIEVE. 3. Commercial & civil law. The substitution of one form of payment for the other. - commute, ub. -commutative, adj.

commutation of taxes

A tax exemption resulting from a taxpayer's paying either a lump sum or a specific sum in lieu of an ad valorem tax.