Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Court of the Lord High Steward
Hist. A court commissioned to try a peer indicted for treason or a felony. ( The Court met only if the House of Lords was not in session. The Lord High Steward sat as a judge and decided questions of law, and the peers decided facts only. The Court last sat in 1688.
Court of the Lord High Steward of the Universities
Hist. A court convened to try scholars, esp. Oxford or Cambridge students, who have been indicted for treason, felony, or mayhem.
Court of the Steward of the King's Household
Hist. A court having jurisdiction overcriminal cases involving a member of the royal household. ( This court's jurisdiction was at first limited to acts of violence by the king's servants toward a member of the king's council, but it was later given broader criminal authority. The Court was abolished in 1828.
Lord High Steward
Hist. The speaker pro tempore and presiding officer in the House of Lords during a criminal trial of a peer for a felony or for treason. ( The privilege of peerage in criminal proceedings was abolished in 1948.
Steward
1 A person appointed in place of another. 2. A union official who represents union employees and who oversees the carrying out of union contracts. - Also termed (in sense 2) union steward; shop steward.
Steward of Chiltern Hundreds
English law. Formerly, a royal officer charged with protecting residents from robbers and thieves who hid in the hundreds' wooded areas. 0 A member of Parliament can now use the office as a way to resign from office (something forbidden by statute) by accepting in lieu of a Parliamentary seat a royal appointment as Steward of Chiltern Hundreds. By law, a member of Parliament may not accept certain Crown appointments without forfeiting his or her seat, so once a member secures an appointment as Steward of Chiltern Hundreds - an office that is now only a sinecure - he or she is removed from Parliament. A resignation from the office of Steward completes the resignation process.
steward of a manor
Hist. An officer who handles the business matters of a manor, including keeping the court rolls and granting admittance to copyhold lands.
steward of all England
Hist. An officer vested with various powers, including the power to preside over the trial of peers.
union steward
See STEWARD.