Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Clerk of the Privy Seal
Hist. An officer responsible for preparing documents for the Lord Privy Seal. ( The use of the Privy Seal was abolished in 1884. See PRIVY SEAL.
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
A tribunal created in 1833 with jurisdiction to hear certain admiralty and ecclesiastical appeals, and certain appeals from the Commonwealth. 0 Its decisions are not treated as binding precedent in the United Kingdom, but they are influential because of the overlapping composition of members of the Council and the House of Lords in its judicial capacity.
Keeper of the Privy Seal
1 LORD PRIVY SEAL. 2. In Scotland and Cornwall, an officer similar to the English Lord Privy Seal.
Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal
See LORD PRIVY SEAL.
Lord Privy Seal
English law. An officer who has custody of the privy seal and who authenticates either a state document before it passes to receive the Great Seal or a document that does not require the Great Seal because of its minor importance. ( The Lord Privy Seal has nominal official duties but is often made a member of the British cabinet. -Also termed Keeper of the Privy Seal; Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal; Privy Seal.
Privy
n. pl. A person having a legal interest of privity in any action, matter, or property; a person who is in privity with another. 0 Traditionally, there were six types of privies: (1) privies in blood, such as an heir and an ancestor; (2) privies in representation, such as an executor and a testator or an administrator and an intestate person; (3) privies in estate, such as grantor and grantee or lessor and lessee; (4) privies in respect to a contract - the parties to a contract; (5) privies in respect of estate and contract, such as a lessor and lessee where the lessee assigns an interest, but the contract between lessor and lessee continues because the lessor does not accept the assignee; and (6) privies in law, such as husband and wife. Pl. privies.
Privy Council
In Britain, the principal council of the sovereign, composed of the cabinet ministers and other persons chosen by royal appointment to serve as privy councillors. ( The functions of the Privy Council are now mostly ceremonial. See JUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL.
Privy Councillor
A member of the Privy Council.
privy purse
English law. The income set apart for the sovereign's personal use.
privy seal
1.A seal used in making out grants or letters patent before they are passed under the great seal. 2. (cap.) LORD PRIVY SEAL.
privy signet
Hist. The signet or seal used by the sovereign in making out grants and private letters.
privy verdict
. Hist. A verdict given after the judge has left or adjourned the court, and the jury, having agreed, obtain leave to give their verdict privately to the judge out of court so that the jurors can be delivered from their confinement. ( Such a verdict was of no force unless afterwards affirmed by a public verdict given in -open court. This practice has been superseded by that of rendering a sealed verdict.