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Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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

Contenement

Hist. 1. Freehold land held by a feudal tenant, esp. land used to support the tenant. 0 Magna Carta exempted this property from seizure."Contenement, (contenementum) seemeth to be the free hould land, which lyeth to a mans tenement or dwelling house, that is in his owne occupation. For magna carta. ca. 14. you have these words: A free man shall not be amerced for a small fault, but after the quantity of the fault: and for a great fault, after the maner thereof, saving to him his contenement or free hould. And a merchant likewise shal be amerced saving to him his merchandies: and any other villains then owers, shal be amerced saving his wainage ...." John Cowell, The Interpreter (1607).

De nullo tenemento, quod tenetur ad terminum, fit homagii; fit tamen inde fidelitatis sacramentum

For no tenement that is held for a term is there the oath of homage, but there is the oath of fealty.

Dos rationabilis vel legitima est cujuslibet mulieris de quocunque tenemento tertia pars omnium terrarum et tenementorum, quae vir suus tenuit in dominio suo ut de feodo, etc

Reasonable or legitimate dower belongs to every woman of a third part of all the lands and tenements of which her husband was seised in his demesne, as of fee, etc.

Feodum est quod quis tenet ex quacunque causa, sive sit tenementum sive redditus

A fet. is what anyone holds from whatever cause, w Nether tenement or rent.

Nemo ejusdem tenementi simul potest esse haeres et dominus

No one can be at the same time heir and lord of the same tenement.

Tenement

1. Property (esp. land) held by freehold; an estate or holding of land.

dominant tenement

See dominant estate under ESTATE (4).

fine annullando levato de tenemento quod fait de antiquo dominico

[Latin "a fine to be annulled levied from a tenant which was of ancient demesne"] Hist. A writ for disannulling a conveyance of land in ancient demesne to the lord's prejudice.

frank-tenement

Hist. A free tenement; a freehold. & This term described both the tenure and the estate.

lands, tenements, and hereditaments

Real property. ( The term was traditionally used in wills, deeds, and other instruments.

liberum tenementum

n. [Law Latin] Hist. 1. A plea of freehold; a defensive common-law pleading in an action for trespass to lands. ( The defendant pleaded either ownership of the land in question or authorization from the freehold owner. 2. FREEHOLD.

nil habuit in tenementis

n. [Law Latin "he has nothing in the tenements"] Hist. In an action to recover rent on a lease, the defendant's plea that the landlord has no title or interest in the property at issue.

non implacitando aliquem de libero tenemento sine brevi

[Latin "not impleading anyone of his free tenement without a breve"] Hist. A writ that, without a writ from the king, prohibited bailiffs or others from distraining anyone from touching their freehold estates. noninfamous crime See CRIME.

retenementum

Hist. A withholding; restraint or detainment.

seraient tenement

See seruient estate under ESTATE. 2. A house or other building used as a residence.

servient tenement

See servient estate under ESTATE.

tenement house

A low-rent apartment building, usu. in poor condition and at best meeting only minimal safety and sanitary conditions.