Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Base tenure.
see tenure,
Tenure
n. 1. A right, term, or mode of holding lands or tenements in subordination to a superior. ( In feudal times, real property was held predominantly as part of a tenure system. 2. A particular feudal mode of holding lands, such as socage, gavelkind, villeinage, and frankalmoign.
base tenure
Hist. The holding of property in villeinage rather than by military service or free service. See VILLEINAGE (1). copyhold tenure. See COPYI-IOLD.
burgage-tenure
Hist. 1. A type of socage tenure in which tenants paid annual rents to the lord of the borough. See SOCAGE. 2. Scots law. The tenure by which a burgh held its land of the king, the service due being watching and warding. See WATCH AND WARD.
disturbance of tenure
A stranger's ouster of a tenant from a tenancy. 0 The tenant's lord could recover damages for the ouster.
horn tenure
See CORNAGE.
judicial-tenure commission
A commission that reviews complaints against judges, investigates those complaints, and makes recommendations about appropriate measures to the highest court in the jurisdiction.
lay tenure
Hist. Any tenure not held through religious service, such as a base tenure or a freehold tenure. Cf. tenure by divine service.
military tenure
A tenure that bears some relation to military service, such as knight service, grand serjeanty, and cornage.
military tenure.
See TENURE.
nontenure
Hist. A general denial in a real action, whereby the defendant denies holding some or all of the land in question.
spiritual tenure
A tenure that bears some relation to religious exercises, such as frankalmoign and tenure by divine service.
tenure ad furcam et flagellum
[Latin] Hist. Tenure by gallows and whip. ( This was the meanest of the servile tenures - the bondman was at the disposal of the lord for life and limb.
tenure by divine service
Hist. A tenure obligating the tenant to perform an expressly defined divine service, such as singing a certain number of masses or distributing a fixed sum of alms. Cf. lay tenure. 3. A status afforded to a teacher or professor as a protection against summary dismissal without sufficient cause. ( This status has long been considered a cornerstone of academic freedom. 4. More generally, the legal protection of a long-term relationship, such as employment. - tenurial (ten-yuur-ee-al), adj.
tenure in capite
See IN CAPITE.
tenured faculty
The members of a school's teaching staff who hold their positions for life or until retirement, and who may not be discharged except for cause.