Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Riot
n. An unlawful disturbance of the peace by an assembly of usu. three or more persons acting with a common purpose in a violent or tumultuous manner that threatens or terrorizes the public. - riot, ub. - riotous, adj. Cf. unlawful assembly under ASSEMBLY; CIVIL COMMOTION; ROUT.
Riot Act
A 1714 English statute that made it a capital offense for 12 or more rioters to continue together for an hour after a magistrate has officially proclaimed that rioters must disperse. ( This statute was not generally accepted in the United States and did not become a part of American common law. It did, however, become a permanent part of the English language in the slang phrase reading the Riot Act (meaning "to reprimand vigorously"), which originally referred to the official command for rioters to disperse.
Riotous assembly
hist. An unlawful assembly of 12 or more persons causing a disturbance of the peace.
heriot
n. [fr. Old English here "army" + geatwa "trappings"] Hist. A customary tribute of goods and chattels, payable to the lord of the fee on the tenant's death. e Heriot derives from an earlier feudal service consisting of military equipment returned to the lord on the tenant's death; over time it came to refer only to the chattel payment due at the tenant's death.
heriot custom
A heriot due by custom. ( This term is used primarily to distinguish a heriot service from an ordinary heriot.
heriot service
A tribute arising from special reservation in a grant or lease of lands, and thus amounting to little more than rent.
riotous assembly
See ASSEMBL