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Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.

Scab

A person who works under conditions contrary to a union contract; esp., a worker who crosses a union picket line to replace a union worker during a strike. - Also termed strikebreaker.

confiscable

adj. (Of property) liable to confiscation; subject to forfeiture <confiscable contraband>.

scabini

[Law Latin] Hist. Judges or the judge's assessors in the court held by the count; magistrates. ( The term was found in a charter from the wardens of Lynn in Norfolk, during the reign of Henry VIII. But even earlier than that, the title was used in Charlemagne's empire (the French equivalent being edeuins) and later Germanized as Schoffen.