Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Vacatio
Civil law. Exemption: immunity; privilege; dispensation.
Vacation
n. 1. The act of vacating <vacation of the office> <vacation of the court's order>. 2. The period between one term of court and the beginning of the next; the space of time during which a court holds no sessions. ( The traditional vacations in England were Christmas vacation, beginning December 24 and ending January 6; Easter vacation, beginning Good Friday and ending Easter Tuesday; Whitsun vacation, beginning on the Saturday before and ending the Tuesday after Whitsunday (i.e., Pentacost, the seventh Sunday after Easter); and the long vacation, beginning August 13 and ending October 23. 3. Loosely, anytime when a given court is not in session. 4. Eccles. law. The act or process by which a church or benefice becomes vacant, as on the death or resignation of the incumbent, until a successor is appointed. - Also termed (in sense 4) vacatura. vacation barrister See BARRISTER.
Vacation barrister
a counselor who, being newly called to the bar, is to attend for six long vacations the exercises of the house.