Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Separation
1. An arrangement whereby a husband and wife live apart from each other while remaining married, either by mutual consent or by judicial decree; the act of carrying out such an arrangement. - Also termed legal separation; judicial separation. 2. The status of a husband and wife having begun such an arrangement, or the judgment or contract that brought the arrangement about. 3. Cessation of a contractual relationship, esp. in an employment situation. - separate, ub.
beneicium separationis
[Latin "privilege of separation"] Roman law. The right of a creditor of the deceased to have the property of the deceased separated from an heir's property. This separation protected the deceased's creditors by ensuring that the deceased's property was not used to pay the heir's creditors.
deed of separation
An instrument governing a spouse's separation and maintenance.
judicial separation
See SEPARATION (1).
legal separation
See SEPARATION (1)
separation a mensa et thoro
See divorce a mensa et thoro under DIVORCE.
separation agreement
An agreement between spouses in the process of a divorce or legal separation concerning alimony, property division, child custody and support, and the like. -Also termed separation order (if approved or sanctioned judicially).
separation from bed and board
See divorce a mensa et thoro under DIVORCE.
separation of patrimony
Civil law. The act of providing creditors of a succession the right to collect against the class of estate property from which the creditors should be paid, by separating certain succession property from property rights belonging to the heirs.
separation of powers
The division of governmental authority into three branches of government - legislative, executive, and judicial -each with specified duties on which neither of the other branches can encroach; the constitutional doctrine of checks and balances by which the people are protected against tyranny. Cf. DIVISION OF POWERS.
separation of witnesses
The exclusion of witnesses (other than the plaintiff and defendant) from the courtroom to prevent them from hearing the testimony of others.
separation order
See SEPARATION AGREEMENT,
separation pay.
See SEVERANCE PAY.