Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.

Watch

n. Maritime law. 1. A division of a ship's crew <port or starboard watch>. 2. The division of the day into time periods of service by officers and the crew <four-hour watch>.

watch and ward

n. Hist. A feudal duty that some tenants had to keep guard through continuous vigilance. ( The phrase denotes keeping guard by night (watch) and by day (ward). - Also termed watching and warding.

watch,

ub. Hist. To stand guard during the night.