Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Correlative
adj. 1. Related or corresponding; analogous. 2. Having or involving a reciprocal or mutually interdependent relationship <the term right is correlative with duty>.
Relative
n. A person connected with another by blood or affinity; a kinsman.
collateral relative
A relative who is not in the direct line of inheritance, such as a cousin.
correlative-rights doctrine
Water law. The principle that adjoining landowners must limittheir use of a common water source to a reasonable amount.
dependent relative revocation
The doctrine that regards as mutually dependent the acts of destroying a will and substituting a new one when both acts are the result of one plan, so that, if a testator fails to complete the substitution, it is presumed that the testator would have preferred the old will to take effect. ( This doctrine is a specific application of the rule that the testator's intent governs.
relative fact
See FACT
relative nullity
Civil law. 1. A legal nullity that can be cured by confirmation because the object of the nullity is valid. 2. The state of such a nullity.
relative power
A power that relates directly to land, as distinguished from a collateral power.
relative right
A right that arises from and depends on someone else's right, as distinguished from an absolute right. Cf. absolute right.
relative-convenience doctrine
The principle that an injunction or other equitable relief may be denied if it would cause one party great inconvenience but the other party little or no inconvenience.