Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Admeasurement
n. 1. Ascertainment, assignment, or apportionment by a fixed quantity or value, or by certain limits <the ship's admeasurement is based on its crew, engine, and capacity>. 2. A writ obtained for purposes of ascertaining, assigning, or apportioning a fixed quantity or value or to establish limits; esp., a writ available against persons who usurp more than their rightful share of property. - admeasure (ad-mezh-ar), ub.
Admensuratio
n. [Law Latin] Hist. Admeasurement.
Arsura
n. [law latin] hist. 1. The trial of money by heating it after it is coined. 2. The loss in weight from this process.
Arsure en la main
n. [law french] see miser in le main.
Assessable insurance
see insurance.
Assessment insurance
see insurance
Assisa de mensuris
n. [law latin "assize of measures"] hast. a. Common rule for weights and measures, estai, lished by richard i in the eighth year of l reign.
Assurance
n. 1. Something that gives confidence; the state of being confident or secure < self-assurance > . 2. A pledge or guarantee <adequate assurances of the borrower's solvency . 3. The act of transferring real property; the instrument by which it is transferred <the owner's assurance of the farm to his son>. 4. English law. See life insurance under insurance <she obtained assurance before traveling abroad, naming her husband as the beneficiary. - assure, vb.
Assured
n. Insurance. One who is indemnified against loss; insured.
Assurer
See insurer.
Automobile insurance
see insurance.
Aviation insurance
see insurance.
Beneficium principis debet esse mansurum
.The benefaction of a prince ought to be be lasting.
Censure
ub. To reprimand; to criticize harsh <Congress censured the senator for his inflam matory remarks>.
Cessure
See CESSER.
Coinsurance
See INSURANCE.
Coinsurer
An insurer who shares losses sustained under an insurance policy. See coinsurance under INSURANCE.
Collateral assurance
a pledge made in addition to the principal assurance of an agreement.
Common assurance.
see muniment of title. Further assurance. A covenant contained in a warranty deed whereby the grantor promises to execute any document that might be needed in the future to perfect the title that the original deed purported to transfer.
Consuetudo contra rationem introducta potius usurpatio quam consuetudo appellari debet.
A custom introduced against reason ought rather to be called a usurpation than a custom.
Cosurety
A surety who shares the cost of performing suretyship obligations with another. See SURETY.
Court of Policies of Insurance
Hist. A court that determines in a summary way insurancepolicy issues arising between merchants. ( The Court's jurisdiction extended only to London, and appeal was taken to the Court of Chancery. The Court was abolished in 1863. - Also termed Court of Policies of Assurance.
D & O liability insurance
See directors' and officers' liability insurance under INSURANCE.
Disclosure
n. The act or process of making known something that was previously unknown; a revelation of facts <a lawyer's disclosure of a conflict of interest>. - disclose, z)b. - disclosural, adj. See DISCOVERY; INITIAL DISCLOSURE.
E & O insurance
See errors-and-omissions insurance under INSURANCE.
EPL insurance
. See employment-practices-liability insurance under INSURANCE.
Enclosure
1. Something enclosed in a parcel or envelope. 2. Land surrounded by some visible obstruction; CLOSE (1). 3. An artificial fence around one's estate. - Also spelled inclosure.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
An independent governmental agency that insures bank deposits up to a statutory amount per depositor at each participating bank. ( The insurance fund is financed by a premium paid by the participating banks. - Abbr. FDIC.
Federal Insurance Contributions Act
The federal act imposing the social-security tax on employers and employees. IRC (26 USCA) ยงยง 3101-3127. - Abbr. FICA.
Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation
A federal agency created in 1934 to insure deposits in savings-and-loan associations and savings banks. ( When this agency became insolvent in 1989, its assets and liabilities were transferred to an insurance fund managed by the FDIC. - Abbr. FSLIC. See RESOLUTION TRUST CORPORATION.
First Lord of the Treasury
English law. The chief officer in charge of the treasury. ( Today, this position is held by the Prime Minister.
Grand Survey.
See grand inquest (2) under IN. QUEST.
Great Survey.
See grand inquest (2) under IN. QUEST.
Inclosure
See ENCLOSURE.
Insure
ub. 1. To secure, by payment of a premium, the payment of a sum of money in the event of a loss. 2. To issue or procure an insurance policy on or for.
Insured
n. A person who is covered or protected by an insurance policy. - Also termed assured.
Insurer
One who agrees, by contract, to assume the risk of another's loss and to compensate for that loss. - Also termed underwriter; insurance underwriter; carrier; assurer (for life insurance).
Insurgent
n. A person who, for political purposes, engages in armed hostility against an established government. - insurgent, adj. -insurgency, n.
Insurrection
A violent revolt against an oppressive authority, usu. a government.
Interinsurance
See reciprocal insurance under INSURANCE.
Interpretatio talis in ambiguis semper fiends est ut evitetur inconveniens et absurdum.
In ambiguities, a construction should always be found such that what is unsuitable and absurd may be avoided.
L'obligation sans cause, ou sur une fausse cause, ou sur cause illicite, ne peut avoir aucun effet
An obligation without consideration, or upon a false consideration, or upon unlawful consideration, cannot have any effect.
Lex Angliae non patitur absurdum
The law of England does not allow an absurdity.
Lloyd's insurance
Insurance provided by insurers as individuals, rather than as a corporation. ( The insurers' liability is several but not joint. Most states either prohibit or strictly regulate this type of insurance. See LLOYD'S OF LONDON.
Lord High Treasurer
Hist. An officer in charge of the royal revenues and customs duties, and of leasing the Crown lands. ( The functions of the Lord High Treasurer are now vested in the lords commissioners of the treasury.
Mensura
n. [Latin) Hist. A measure.
Moneta est justum medium et mensura rerum commutabilium, nam per medium monetae fit omnium rerum conveniens et justa aestimatio
Money is the just medium and measure of all exchangeable things, for by the medium of money a suitable and just estimation of all things is made.
Nondisclosure
The failure or refusal to reveal something that either might be or is required to be revealed.
Overinsurance
1. Insurance (esp. from the purchase of multiple policies) that exceeds the value of the thing insured. 2. Excessive or needlessly duplicative insurance.
Reassurance
See REINSURANCE.