Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Visit
, n. Int'l law. A naval officer's boarding an ostensibly neutral merchant vessel from another state to exercise the right of search. 9 This right is exercisable when suspicious circumstances exist, as when the vessel is suspected of involvement in piracy. - Also termed visitation. See RIGHT OF SEARCH.
Visitor
1. A person who goes or comes to a particular person or place. 2. A person appointed to visit, inspect, inquire into, and correct corporate irregularities.
ex visitatione Dei
[Latin] 1. By the dispensation of God; by reason of physical incapacity. ( Anciently, when a prisoner who was being arraigned stood silently instead of pleading, a jury was impaneled to inquire whether the prisoner obstinately stood mute or was dumb ex visitatione Dei. 2. By natural causes as opposed to violent ones. ( This phrase sometimes appears in a coroner's report when death results from a disease or another natural cause.
nonoccupant visitor. Criminal procedure.
A person who owns, coowns, is employed by, or is a patron of a business enterprise where a search is being conducted in accordance with a search warrant.
right of visit
See RIGHT OF SEARCH.
right of visit and search
See RIGHT OF SEARCH.
right of visitation
1. VISITATION RIGHT. 2. RIGHT OF SEARCH.
right of visitation and search.
See RIGHT OF SEARCH.
visitation
1. Inspection; superintendence; direction; regulation. 2. Family law. A noncustodial parent's period of access to a child. ( While the noncustodial parent is responsible for the care of the child during visits, visitation differs from custody because noncustodial parent and child do not live together as a family unit. 3. The process of inquiring into and correcting corporate irregularities. 4. VISIT.
visitation books
Hist. Books compiled by the heralds, when royal progresses were solemnly and regularly made into every part of the kingdom, to inquire into the state of families and to register whatever marriages and descents were verified to them upon oath.
visitation order
An order establishing the visiting times for a noncustodial parent with his or her children.
visitation right
1. Family law. A noncustodial parent's or grandparent's court-ordered privilege of spending time with a child or grandchild who is living with another person, usu. the custodial parent. 2. Int'l law. A belligerent nation's right to go upon and search a neutral vessel to find out whether it is carrying contraband or is otherwise engaged in nonneutral service. ( If it is doing either of these things, the searchers may seize the contraband and carry out an appropriate punishment. - Also termed right of visitation. Visitatorial (viz-a-ta-tor-ee-al), adj. See VISITORIAL.
visiting judge
A judge appointed by the presiding judge of an administrative region to sit temporarily on a given court, usu. in the regular judge's absence. - Also termed temporary judge; judge pro ternpore.
visitor of manners
A regarder-'s office in the forest.
visitorial
, adj. Of or relating to on-site inspection or supervision. - Also termed visitatorial.