Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Assault purpense
see assault.
Asset purchase
see asset acquisition.
Bargain purchase.
see bargain sale
Cutpurse
Hist. A person who steals by cutting purses; a pickpocket.
Dolus circuitu non purgatur
Fraud is not purged by circuity.
Feodum simplex quia feodum idem est quod haereditas, et simplex idem est quod legituum vel purum; et sic feodum simplex idem est quod haereditas legitima vel haereditas pura
"Fee simple" is so called because fee is the same as inheritance and simple is the same as lawful or pure; and thus fee simple is the same as a lawful inheritance of ;i pure inheritance.
Home ne sera puny pur suer den briefer en court le roy, soit il a droit ou a tort
A person shall not be punished for suing out writs in the king's court, whether the person is right or wrong.
Pur
[Law French] By; for.
Purchaser
1 One who obtains property for money or other valuable consideration; a buyer,
Purgation
Hist. The act of cleansing or exonerating oneself of a crime or accusation by an oath or ordeal.
Purge
ub. To exonerate (oneself or another) of guilt <purged the defendant of contempt>.
Purpart
A share of an estate formerly held in common; a part in a division. -Formerly also termed purparty; perparts.
Purport
ub. To profess or claim falsely; to seem to be <the document purports to be a will, but it is neither signed nor dated>. purported, adj. Reputed; rumored.
Purpose
An objective, goal, or end; specif., the business activity that a corporation is chartered to engage in. purpose approach. See MISCHIEF RULE.
Purposeful
adj. Done with a specific purpose in mind.
Purse
n. A sum of money available to the winner of a contest or event; a prize.
Purser
A person in charge of accounts and documents on a ship.
Pursuit
1. An occupation or pastime. 2. The act of chasing to overtake or apprehend. See FRESH PURSUIT.
Quod pure debetur praesenti die debetur
That which is due unconditionally is due the same day.
Repurchase
n. The act or an instance of buying something back or again; esp., a corporation's buying back of some or all of its stock at market price. - repurchase, ub. See REDEMPTION.
Simplex et pura donatio dici poterit ubi nulla est adjecta conditio nec modus
A gift is said to be pure and simple when no condition or qualification has been annexed.
Spurious
n. [Latin] Roman law. A bastard; the offspring of unlawful intercourse. See NOTHUS.
Spurious banknote
1. A banknote that is legitimately made from a genuine plate but that has forged signatures of the issuing officers, or the names of fictitious officers. 2. A banknote that is not a legitimate impression from a genuine plate, or is made from a counterfeit plate, but that is signed by the persons shown on it as the issuing officers. Also termed spurious bank bill.
Uniform Division of Income for Tax Purposes Act
A uniform law, adopted by some states, that provides criteria to assist in assigning the total taxable income of a multistate corporation among the various states. - Abbr. UDITPA.
affiliated purchaser
Securities. Any of the following: (1) a person directly or indirectly acting in concert with a distribution participant in connection with the acquisition or distribution of the securities involved; (2) an affiliate who directly or indirectly controls the purchases of those securities by a distribution participant, or whose purchases are controlled by such a participant, or whose purchases are under common control with those of such a participant; (3) an affiliate, who is a broker or a dealer (except a broker-dealer whose business consists solely of effecting, transactions in "exempted securities," as defined in the Exchange Act); (4) an affiliate (other than a broker-dealer) who regularly purchases securities through a broker-dealer, or otherwise, for its own account or for the account of others, or recommends or exercises investment discretion in the purchase or sale of securities (with certain specified exceptions). SEC Rule lob-18(a)(2) (17 CFR ยง 240.1Ob-18(a)(2)).
appurtenance
n. something that belongs or is attached to something else < the garden is an appurtenance to the land>.
appurtenant
adj. annexed to a more important thing.
appurtenant easement
See easement appurtenant.
bona fide purchaser
One who buys something for value without notice of another's claim to the item or of any defects in the seller's title; one who has in good faith paid valuable consideration for property without notice of prior adverse claims. - Abbr. BFP. - Also termed good-faith purchaser; purchaser in good faith; innocent purchaser.
bona fide purchaser for value
One who purchases legal title to real property, without actual or constructive notice of any infirmities, claims, or equities against the title. Generally, a bona fide purchaser for value is not affected by the transferor's fraud against a third party, and has a superior right to the transferred property as against the transferor's creditor to the extent of the consideration that the purchaser has paid. - Also termed innocent purchaser for ualue.
bona fide purchaser for value.
See PURCHASER (1).
bona fide purchaser.
See PURCHASER
business-purpose doctrine
Tax. The principle that a transaction must serve a bona fide hu,iness purpose (i.e., not just for tax t t> dance) to qualify for beneficial tax treatment
canonical purgation
Purgation by 12 oath-helpers in an ecclesiastical court. See COMPURGATION.
certificate of purchase
A document reflecting a successful bid for property at a judicial sale. ( The bidder receives a property deed if the land is not redeemed or if the sale is confirmed by court order. - Also termed certificate of sale.
charitable purpose
Tax. The purpose for which an organization must be formed so that it qualifies as a charitable organization under the Internal Revenue Code. - Also termed charitable use.
common appurtenant
See COMMON.
common business purpose
Related activity by two or more associated businesses. ( If one of the businesses comes within the jurisdiction of the Fair Labor Standards Act, then another business that shares a common business purpose will also.
compurgation
n. [Latin con- "together" + purgare "to clear or purge"] Hist. A trial by which a defendant could have supporters (called compurgators), frequently 11 in number, testify that they thought the defendant was telling the truth. - Also termed wager of law; trial by oath. - compurgatory, adj."If a defendant on oath and in a set form of words will deny the charge against him, and if he can get a certain number of other persons (compurgators) to back his denial by their oaths, he will win his case. If he cannot get the required number, or they do not swear in proper form, the oath bursts,' and he will lose. Though oaths were used in the Roman law of procedure, this institution of compurgation was not known to it. It was, however, common to the laws of many of the barbarian tribes who overran the Roman empire. Because it wa
compurgator
Hist. A person who appeared in court and made an oath in support of a civil or criminal defendant. - Also termed OATH-HELPER. See COMPURGATION.
conditional purpose
1. An intention to do something, conditions permitting. 2. Criminal law. A possible defense against a crime if the conditions make committing the crime impossible (e.g., "I will steal the money if it's there," and the money is not there). conditional right See RIGHT.
corporate purpose
The general scope of the business objective for which a corporation was created. ( A statement of corporate purpose is commonly required in the articles of incorporation.
county purpose
An objective pursued by a county; esp., one that a county levies taxes for.
covenant appurtenant
See COVENANT (4).
cross-purchase buy-sell agreement.
1. BUY SELL AGREEMENT (1). 2. A partnership insurance plan in which each partner individually buys and maintains enough insurance on the life or lives of other partners to purchase a deceased orexpelled partner's equity.
dual-purpose doctrine
The principle that an employer is liable for an employee's injury that occurs during a business trip even though the trip also serves a personal purpose. Cf. DUAL. CAPACITY DOCTRINE.
dual-purpose fund
See dual fund under MUTU. AL FUND.
easement appurtenant
See EASEMENT.
estate by purchase
See ESTATE.
expurgation
n. The act or practice of purging or cleansing, as by publishing a book without its obscene passages. -expurgate (eks-par-gayt), ub. - expurgator (eks-par-gay-tar), n.