Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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Stipend

1 A salary or other regular, periodic payment. 2. A tribute to support the clergy, usu. consisting of payments in money or grain.

Stipendium

n. [Latin] Roman law. A soldier's regular pay. Cf. SALARIUM.

metropolitan stipendiary magistrate

English law. A stipendiary magistrate with jurisdiction in inner London areas. See stipendiary magistrate.

praedia stipendiaria

[Latin] Provincial lands belonging to the public.

stipendiary estate

Hist. An estate granted in return for services, usu. of a military kind.

stipendiary magistrate

English law. A salaried magistrate that per-forms either in the place of or along with Justices of the Peace, and is appointed from barristers and solicitors of seven years standing.