Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.

TECA

abbr. TEMPORARY EMERGENCY COURT OF APPEALS.

Whitecapping

The criminal act of threatening a person - usu. a member of a minority group - with violence in an effort to compel the person either to move away or to stop engaging in a certain business or occupation. ( White capping statutes were originally enacted to curtail the activities of the Ku Klux Klan.

hipoteca

n. Spanish law. A mortgage of real property. See HYPOTHECATION.