Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Judices non tenentur exprimere causam sententiae suae
Judges are not bound to explain the reason of their judgments.
Prime
vb. To take priority over < Watson's preferred mortgage primed Moriarty's lien>. prime contractor See general contractor under CONTRACTOR.
Primer
[Law French] First; primary <primer seisin>.
prime cost
The true price paid for goods on a bona fide purchase.
prime lending rate
See prime rate under INTEREST RATE.
prime maker
See MAKER.
prime minister
The chief executive of a parliamentary government; the head of a cabinet. - Abbr. PM.
prime rate
The interest rate that a commercial bank holds out as its lowest rate for a short-term loan to its most creditworthy borrowers, usu. large corporations. ( This rate, which can vary slightly from bank to bank, often dictates other interest rates for various personal and commercial loans. - Often shortened to prime. - Also termed prime lending rate.
prime serjeant
See premier serjeant under SER^ JEANT-AT-LAW.
prime tenant
A commercial or professional tenant with an established reputation that leases substantial, and usu. the most preferred, space in a commercial development. A prime tenant is important in securing construction financing and in attracting other desirable tenants.
primer election
A first choice; esp., the eldest coparcener's pick of land on division of the estate. See ELECTION.
primer fine
[Latin] Hist. A fee payable to the Crown on the suing out of a writ of praecipe to begin a conveyance by fine. See FINE (1). - Also termed praefine.
primer seisin
Hist. A right of the Crown to receive, from the heir of a tenant who died in possession of a knight's fee, one year's profits of the inherited estate (or half a year's profits if the estate was in reversion); FIRST FRUITS .