Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Bank night
a lottery in which a prize is awarded to a person (often a theater patron) whose name is drawn randomly from a hopper.
Night
1. The time from sunset to sunrise. 2. Darkness; the time when a person's face is not discernible. ( This definition was used in the common-law definition of certain offenses, such as burglary.
Nightwalker
1. Hist. A person who suspiciously wanders about at night and who might disturb the peace. ( Nightwalking was an example of a "common" offense requiring no specific facts to be asserted in the indictment. 2. A sleepwalker. 3. A prostitute who walks the streets at night; streetwalker.
Saturday-night special
1. A handgun that is easily obtained and concealed. 2. Corporations. A surprise tender offer typically held open for a limited offering period (such as one week) to maximize pressure on a shareholder to accept. ( These tender offers are now effectively prohibited by section 14(e) of the Williams Act. 15 USCA § 78n(e).
knight bachelor
See BACHELOR (3).
knight service
Hist. A type of tenure in which a knight held land of another person or the Crown in exchange for a pledge of military service. - Also termed knight's service. Cf. BASE SERVICE; SOCAGE; VILLEINAGE. "By far the greater part of England is held of the king by knight's service (per seruitium militare): it is comparatively rare for the king's tenants in chief to hold by any of the other tenures. In order to understand this tenure we must form the conception of a unit of military service. That unit seems to be the service of one knight or fully armed horseman (seruitium unius militis) to be done to the king in his army for forty days in the year, if it be called for." 1 Frederick Pollock & Frederic W. Maitland, The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward 1254 (2d ed. 1898).
knight's fee
See KNIGHT'S FEE.
knight's service.
See KNIGHT SERVICE.
knight.
1. Hist. In the Middle Ages, a person of noble birth who, having been trained in arms and chivalry, was bound to follow an earl, baron, or other superior lord into battle. 2. In modern Britain, a man upon whom the monarch has bestowed an honorary dignity (knighthood) as a reward for personal merit of some kind. & The status of knighthood no longer relates to birth or possessions and does not involve military service.
midnight deadline.
A time limit for doing something, ending at midnight on a particular day. ( For a bank, the midnight deadline is midnight on the next banking day following the day on which the bank receives the relevant item or from which the time for taking action begins to run, whichever is later. UCC § 4-104(a)(10).