Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Disturbance
n. 1. An act causing annoyance or disquiet, or interfering with a person's pursuit of a lawful occupation or the peace and order of a neighborhood, community, or meeting. 2. At common law, a wrong done to an incorporeal hereditament by hindering the owner's enjoyment of it.
Suburbani
n. [Latin] Hist. Husbandmen.
Urban
adj. Of or relating to a city or town; not rural.
disturbance of common
At common law, a wrongful interference with, or impediment to, another's right to commonable property, such as a wrongful fencing or surcharge on the common."The disturbance of common comes next to be considered; where any act is done, by which the right of another to his common is incommoded or diminished. This may happen, in the first place, where one who hath no right of common, puts his cattle into the la
disturbance of franchise
At common law, a wrongful interference with a liberty or privilege."Disturbance of franchises happens when a man has ~!. franchise of holding a court-feet, of keeping a fair •market, of free-warren, of taking toll, of seizing waifs of estrays, or (in short) any other species of franch, ;,whatsoever, and he is disturbed or incommoded in ts-,~-lawful exercise thereof" 3 William Blac';st,.ne , C .r: . r< taries on the Laws of England 236 (176f:
disturbance of public worship
Any conduct that interferes with the peaceful, lawful assembly of people for religious exercises.
disturbance of tenure
A stranger's ouster of a tenant from a tenancy. 0 The tenant's lord could recover damages for the ouster.
disturbance of the peace
See BREACH OF THE PEACE.
disturbance of ways.
An impediment to a person's lawful right-of-way, as by an obstruction.
family disturbance
See DOMESTIC DISPUTE.
praedium urbanum
[Latin] An estate used for business or for dwelling; any estate other than a praedium rusticum.
servitus praedii urbani
[Latin "the servitude of an urban estate"] Roman law. An urban servitude; a servitude attached to a building, as in servitus oneris ferendi.
urban planning
See LAND-USE PLANNING.
urban renewal
The process of redeveloping urban areas by demolishing or repairing existing structures or by building new facilities on areas that have been cleared in accordance with an overall plan.
urban servitude
A servitude appertaining to the building and construction of houses in a city, such as the right to light and air. 2. The condition of being a servant or slave <under the 15th Amendment, an American citizen's right to vote cannot be denied on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude>. 3. The condition of a prisoner who has been sentenced to forced labor <penal servitude>.