Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Hospitia
n. [Latin] Inns.
PITI
abbr. Principal, interest, taxes, and insurance - the components of a monthly mortgage payment.
Praecipitium
[Latin] Roman law. The punishment of casting a criminal from the Tarpeian rock.
ancipitis usus
see conditional contraband under contraband.
capitis aestimatio
[Latin "valuing of a head"] Hist. A monetary estimate of a person's life, made to assess a penalty for the person's slaying. See WERGILD.
capitis deminutio
[Latin "reduction of status"] Romanlaw. A diminution or abridgment of a person's legal status. - Also spelled capitis diminutio. Pl. capitis deminutiones. "Capitis deminutio is the destruction of the 'caput' or legal personality. Capitis deminutio, so to speak, wipes out the former individual and puts a new one in his place, and between the old and the new individual there is, legally speaking, nothing in common. A juristic personality may be thus destroyed in onp of three ways: (1) by loss of the status libertatis. This is the capitis deminutio maxima; (2) by loss of the status civitatis. This is the capitis deminutio media (magna); (3) by severance from the agnatic family. This entails capitis deminutio minima." Rudolph Sohm, The Institutes: A Textbook of the History and System of Roman Private Law 178-79 (James Crawford Ledlie trans., 3d ed. 1907).
consecrntio capitis
Latin "consecrating the body"] Roman law. The act of declaring a wrongdoer an outlaw who could be killed on sight; the punishing of criminal behavior by relegating an offender to the gods, i.e., leaving the person outside divine and human protection. See SACER; OUTLAWRY.
hospitia cancellariae
Inns of chancery.
hospitia communia
Common inns. hospitia curiae (kyoor-ee-I). Inns of court.
hospiticide
n. A host who murders a guest.
hospitium
n. [Latin] An inn; a household.
infra hospitium
[Law Latin "within the inn"] The doctrine that an innkeeper is liable for goods deposited by a guest.