Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Barring of entail
the freeing of an estate from the limitations imposed by an entail and permit its free disposition. A this was anciently, done by means of a fine or common recovery, but later by deed in which the tenant and next heir join. - also termed breaking of entail. See entail.
Disentailment
n. The act or process by which a tenant in tail bars the entail on an estate and converts it into a fee simple, thereby nullifying the rights of any later claimant to the fee tail. - disentail, ub.
Entail
ub. 1. To make necessary; to involve <responding to this onerous discovery will entail countless hours of work>. 2. To limit the inheritance of (an estate) to only the owner's issue or class of issue, so that none of the heirs can transfer the estate <the grantor entailed the property through a so-called "tail female" >. See FEE TAIL.
Entailed
adj. Settled or limited to specified heirs or in tail <entailed gifts>. entailed estate. See FEE TAIL.
Entailment
n. 1. The act of entailing an estate. 2. An estate so entailed.
For example, a wholesaler or distributor usu. receives a greater discount than a retailer. quantity discount
See volume discount.
Retail
n. The sale of goods or commodities to ultimate consumers, as opposed to the sale for further distribution or processing. - retail, vb. - retail, adj. Cf. WHOLESALE.
Retailer
n. A person or entity engaged in the business of selling personal property to the public or to consumers, as opposed to selling to those who intend to resell the items. retail installment contract See CONTRACT.
Tail
n. The limitation of an estate so that it can be inherited only by the fee owner's issue or class of issue. See FEE TAIL; ENTAIL.
breaking of entail
See BARRING OF ENTAIL
disentailing deed
8ist. A tenant-in-tail's assurance that the estate tail will be barred and converted into an estate in fee. 0 The Fines and Recoveries Act (3 & 4 Will. 4 ch. 74) introduced this way of barring an entail. It authorized nearly every tenant in tail, if certain conditions were met, to dispose of the land in fee simple absolute and thus to defeat the rights of all persons claiming under the tenant.
disentailing statute
A statute regulating or prohibiting disentailing deeds. See disentailing deed under DEED.
dovetail seniority
The combination of seniority lists from merging companies into one list that allows employees to keep their premerger seniority.
estate tail
See FEE TAIL.
estate tail quasi
See ESTATE.
fee tail
An estate that is inheritable only by specified descendants of the original grantee, and that endures until its current holder dies without issue (e.g., "to Albert and the heirs of his body"). ( Most jurisdictions - except Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island - have abolished the fee tail. - Also termed entailed estate; estate tail; tenancy in tail; entail; feodum talliatum. See ENTAIL; TAIL. "The name fee tail comes from the French tailler (to carve) and probably meant that the grantor was able to carve a fee to his exact prescription. This carving could be carried to great lengths and the land could be limited to male descendants generally - fee tail male general; to female issue - fee tail female; or to issue of a specific wife - fee tail special. In the latter case, if the specified wife died, the holder of the estate was said to have a fee tail with possibility of issue extinct - a type of life estate." John E. Cribbet, Principles of the Lace of Property 47 (2d ed. 1975). "If we cannot resist the temptation to say that De Donis permitted the creation of tailor-made estates, we can at least argue that it is not a pun. Our word 'tailor' and the word 'tail,' as used in 'fee tail,' come from the same source - the French tailler, to cut. The word 'tail' in 'fee tail' has nothing to do with that which wags the dog. The estate in fee tail was a cut estate - either cut in the sense that the collateral heirs were cut out, or cut in the sense that the estate was carved into a series of discrete life-possession periods to be enjoyed successively by A and his lineal heirs .... We know of no state in the United States that recognizes the estate in fee tail in its strict 1285-1472 form. Wherever it is recognized, the tenant in tail in possession may disentail it by simple deed. In a number of states, the estate in fee tail has been abolished." Thomas F. Bergin & Paul G. Haskell, Preface to Estates in Land and Future Interests 30, 32 (2d ed. 1984).
general tail
See tail general under TAIL.
heir in tail
See heir special.
heir in tail.
See heir special under HEIR.
in tail
See TAIL.
narrowly tailored
adj. (Of a content-neutral restriction on the time, place, or manner of speech in a designated public forum) being only as broad as is reasonably necessary to promote a substantial governmental interest that would be achieved less effectively without the restriction; no broader than absolutely necessary. See designated public forum under PUBLIC FORUM.
quasi-entail
An estate pur autre vie that is granted to a person and the heirs of the person's body. ( The interest so granted is not properly an estate-tail (because it is not granted by inheritance), but it is similar enough that the interest will go to the heir of the body as special occupant during the life of the cestui que vie, in the same manner as an estate of inheritance would descend if limited to the grantee and the heirs of his body.
retail installment contract
A contract for the sale of goods under which the buyer makes periodic payments and the seller retains title to or a security interest in the goods. - Also termed retail installment contract and security agreement; conditional sales contract. Cf. chattel mortgage under MORTGAGE.
retail installment contract and security agreement
See retail installment contract under CONTRACT.
retail installment sale
See INSTALLMENT SALE.
retail sales tax
See sales tax under TAX.
special tail
See tail special under TAIL.
suggested retail price
The sales price recommended to a retailer by a manufacturer of the product.
tail female
A limitation to female heirs.
tail general
A tail limited to the issue of a particular person, but not to that of a particular couple. - Also termed general tail.
tail male
A limitation to male heirs.
tail special
A tail limited to specified heirs of the donee's body. - Also termed special tail. "Estates-tail are either general, or special . Tenant in tail-special is where the gift is restrained to certain heirs and does not go to all of them in general. And this may happen in several ways. I shall instance in only one: as where lands and tenements are given to a man and the heirs of his body, on Mary his now wife to be begotten; here no issue can inherit, but such special issue as is engendered, between them two; not such as the husband may have by another wife: and therefore it is called special tail." 2 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 113-14 (1766).
tenancy in tail
See FEE TAIL.
tenancy in tail.
See FEE TAIL.