Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
A render
[law french i to render; to yield.
Render
vb. 1. To transmit or deliver <render payment>. 2. (Of a judge) to deliver formally <render a judgment>. 3. (Of a jury) to agree on and report formally <render a verdict>. 4. To pay as due < render an account>.
Resurrender
n. Hist. The return of a copyhold estate to a mortgagor by the mortgagee after the debt has been repaid. See SURRENDER OF COPYHOLD.
Surrender
n. 1. The act of yielding to another's power or control. 2. The giving up of a right or claim; RELEASE (1). 3. The return of an estate to the person who has a reversion or remainder, so as to merge the estate into a larger estate. 4. Commercial law. The delivery of an instrument so that the delivery releases the deliverer from all liability. 5. A tenant's relinquishment of possession before the lease has expired, allowing the landlord to take possession and treat the lease as terminated. - surrender, ub.
Surrenderer
See SURRENDEROR.
Surrenderor
One who surrenders; esp., one who yields up a copyhold estate for conveyance. - Also spelled surrenderer. See COPYHOLD.
account rendered
An account produced by the creditor and presented for the debtor's examination and acceptance.
account rendered.
See ACCOUNT.
bill rendered.
See account rendered under AG COUNT.
cash surrender value
Insurance. The amount of money payable when an insurance policy having cash value, such as a whole-life policy, is redeemed before maturity or death. - Abbr. CSV. - Also termed surrender value.
fine sur done, grant et render
[Law French "fine upon gift, grant and render"] Hist. A double conveyance, consisting of a fine sur cognizance de droit come ceo que il ad de son done and a fine sur concessit, used to convey particular limitations of estates. 0 For example, after acknowledgment of the cognizee's right in the land, the cognizee would grant back to the cognizor or a third party some other estate in the land. See FINE (1).
in prender
adj. [Law French "in taking"] Hist. (Of a right) consisting in property taken to fulfill a claim to it, such as an incorporeal hereditament (as a heriot custom) that a lord had to seize in order to exercise the right to it. Cf IN RENDER.
in render
adj. [Law French "in yielding or paying"] Hist. (Of property) required to be given or rendered. Cf. IN PRENDER.
prender de baron
[Law French "a taking of husband"] Hist. A plea asserting that the former wife of a murder victim should not be allowed to appeal a murder case against the alleged killer because she has since remarried.
surrender by bail
A surety's delivery of a prisoner, who had been released on bail, into custody.
surrender by operation of law
An act that is an equivalent to an agreement by a tenant to abandon property and the landlord to resume possession, as when the parties perform an act so inconsistent with the landlord-tenant relationship that surrender is presumed, or when a tenant performs some act that would not be valid if the estate continued to exist. .
surrender of a criminal
An officer's delivery of a prisoner to the authorities in the appropriate jurisdiction. See EXTRADITION; RENDITION.
surrender of a preference
Bankruptcy. The yielding of a voidable conveyance, transfer, assignment, or encumbrance by a creditor to the trustee as a condition of allowing the creditor's claim.
surrender of charter
Corporations. The dissolution of a corporation by a formal yielding of its charter to the state under which it was created and the subsequent acceptance of that charter by the state. "The surrender of a charter can be made only by some formal, solemn act of the corporation, and will be of no avail until accepted by the government. There must be the same agreement of the parties to dissolve that there was to form the compact. It is the acceptance which gives efficacy to the surrender. Consent of the state is sometimes given by general statute." 19 Am. Jur. 2d Corporations ยง 2738, at 546 (1986).
surrender of copyhold
Hist. The transfer by a tenant of a copyhold estate by yielding it to the lord in trust for the transferee according to the terms in the surrender. ( In normal practice, the tenant went to the steward of the manor and delivered a rod, a glove, or other customary symbol, thereby conveying to the lord (through the steward) all interest and title to the estate, in trust, to be then granted by the lord to the transferee. See COPYHOLD.
surrender to uses of will
Hist. A required yielding of a copyhold interest passed by will to the will's uses. ( The requirement was abolished by St. 55 Geo. 3, ch. 192.
surrender value
See cash surrender value under VALUE.
surrender value.
See cash surrender value. true value. See fair market value.
surrenderee
One to whom a surrender is made. See SURRENDER.