Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Occupant
. 1. One who has possessory rights in, or control over, certain property or premises. 2. One who acquires title by occupancy.
Occupantis hunt derelicta
Things abandoned become the property of the (first) occopant
Quod nullius est id ratione naturali occupanti conceditur
What belongs to no one, by natural reason becomes property of the first occupant. Dig. 41.1.3.
Res nullius naturaliter fit primi occupantis
A thing that has no owner naturally belongs to the first taker.
Terra manens vacua occupanti conceditur
Land lying unoccupied is given to the occupant,
common occupant
See general occupant under OCCUPANT.
general occupant
See OCCUPANT.
general occupant.
A person who occupies land in the interim arising after the death of a pur autre vie tenant but before the death of the person who serves as the measuring life for the estate. ( A general occupancy can arise when the grant to the pur autre vie tenant does not state who may occupy the land after the death of the first tenant. Because no heir is named, the land can be occupied by the first possessor of the land. -Also termed common occupant. Cf. CESTUI QUE VIE.
nonoccupant visitor. Criminal procedure.
A person who owns, coowns, is employed by, or is a patron of a business enterprise where a search is being conducted in accordance with a search warrant.
special occupant
See OCCUPANT.
special occupant.
A pur autre vie tenant's heir who occupies land in the interim between the death of the tenant and the death of the person who serves as the measuring life for the estate. ( A special occupancy can arise when the grant to the pur autre vie tenant provides that possession is for the life of the tenant, then to the tenant's heirs.