Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Tide
The rising and falling of seawater that iproduced by the attraction of the sun and moon uninfluenced by special winds, seasons, or other circumstances that create meteorological and atmospheric meteorological tides; the ebb and flow of the sea. 0 Tides are used to measure a shore's upland boundary.
Tideland
Land between the lines of the ordinary high and low tides, covered and uncovered successively by the ebb and flow of those tides; land covered and uncovered by the ordinary tides.
Tidesman
English law. A customhouse officer appointed to watch or attend upon ships until the customs are paid. ( A tidesman boards a ship at its arrival in the mouth of the Thames and comes up with the tide. See CUSTOMHOUSE.
Tidewater
Water that falls and rises with the ebb and flow of the tide. ( The term is not usu. applied to the open sea, but to coves, bays, and rivers.
Tideway
Land between high- and low-water marks.
antideficiency legislation
1 Legislation enacted to provide revenue to cover a budget deficiency. 2. Legislation enacted to limit the rights of secured creditors to recover in excess of the security.
antidestruction clause
a provision in a security protecting a shareholder's conversion rights, in the event of a merger, by granting the shareholder a right to convert the securities into the securities that will replace the company's stock when the merger is complete. - see convertible security under security.
mean high tide
The average of all high tides, esp. over a period of 18.6 years. - Also termed ordinary high tide.
mean low tide
See TIDE.
mean lower low tide
The average of lower low tides over a fixed period.
neap tide
A tide, either high tide or low tide, that is lower than average because it occurs during the first or last quarter of the moon, when the sun's attraction partly counteracts the moon's.
neap tide.
See TIDE.
ordinary high tide
See mean high tide.
spring tide
A tide, either high tide or low tide, that is higher than average because it occurs during the new moon and full moon.
tideland. See
TIDELAND.