Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Intestatus decedit qui aut omnino testamentum non fecit aut non jure fecit, aut id quod fecerat ruptum irritumve factum est, aut nemo ex eo haeres exstitit

A person dies intestate who either has made no will at all or has not made it legally, or when the will that he had made has been annulled or become ineffectual, or when there is no living heir.

Status

1 A person's legal condition, whether personal or proprietary; the sum total of a person's legal rights, duties, liabilities, and other legal relations, or any particular group of them separately considered <the status of a landowner>. 2. A person's legal condition regarding personal rights but excluding proprietary relations <the status of a father> <the status of a wife>. 3. A person's capacities and incapacities, as opposed to other elements of personal status <the status of minors>. 4. A person's legal condition insofar as it is imposed by the law without the person's consent, as opposed to a condition that the person has acquired by agreement <the status of a slave>. "By the status (or standing) of a person is meant the position that he holds with reference to the rights which are recognized and maintained by the law - in other words, his capacity for the exercise and enjoyment of legal rights." James Hadley, Introduction to Roman Law 106 (1881). "The word 'status' itself originally signified nothing more than the position of a person before the law. Therefore, every person (except slaves, who were not regarded as persons, for legal purposes) had a status. But, as a result of the modern tendency towards legal equality formerly noticed, differences of status became less and less frequent, and the importance of the subject has greatly diminished, with the result that the term status is now used, at any rate in English Law, in connection only with those comparatively few classes of persons in the community who, by reason of their conspicuous differences from normal persons, and the fact that by no decision of their own can they get rid of these differences, require separate consideration in an account of the law. But professional or even political differences do not amount to status; thus peers, physicians, clergymen of the established Church, and many other classes of persons, are not regarded as the subjects of status, because the legal differences which distinguish them from other persons, though substantial, are not enough to make them legally abnormal. And landowners, merchants, manufacturers, and wage-earners are not subjects of the Law of Status, though the last-named are, as the result of recent legislation, tending to approach that position." Edward Jenks, The Book of English Law 109 (P.B. Fairest ed., 6th ed. 1967).

Testatus

n. [Latin] Civil law. See TESTATOR.

accredit (a-kred-it), vb. 1. To give official authorization or status to. 2. To recognize (a school) as having sufficient academic standards to qualify graduates for higher education or for profession

filing status

Tax. One of the four categories under which a person files an income tax return. ( Under federal law, the four categories are: (1) single; (2) head of household; (3) married filing a joint return; and (4) married filing separate returns.

intestatus

[Latin] Roman law. An intestate; a person who dies without a will. ( This term had the same meaning in early English law.

law of status

The category of law dealing with personal or nonproprietary rights, whether in rem or in personam. ( It is one of the three departments into which civil law is divided. Cf. LAW OF OBLIGATIONS; LAW OF PROPERTY.

senior status

The employment condition of a judge who, having taken semiretirement, continues to perform certain judicial duties that the judge is willing and able to undertake.

status crime

See CRIME.

status crime.

A type of crime of which a person is guilty by being in a certain condi-

status de manerio

[Law Latin "the state of a manor"] Hist. The assembly of tenants to attend the lord's court.

status of irremovability

Hist. A pauper's right not to be removed from a parish after residing there for one year.

status offender

A youth who engages in conduct that - though not criminal by adult standards - is considered inappropriate enough to bring a charge against the youth in juvenile court; a juvenile who commits a status offense. Cf. youthful offender; JUVENILE DELINQUENT.

status offense

See OFFENSE (1).

status quo

[Latin] The situation that currently exists.

status quo ante

[Latin] The situation that existed before something else (being discussed) occurred.

status, law of

See LAW OF STATUS.