Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
abut
To join at a border or boundary; to share a common boundary with <the company's land in Arizona abuts the Navajo Indian reservation>. - abutment (a-bat mant), n.
abuttals
Land boundaries; thaboundary lines of a piece of land in relation tc other contiguous lands - Also termed (archai-cally) buttals.
abutter
land; one whose property abuts another's. The major right of [an abutter] is that of access to his property -a right of reasonable ingress and egress. He is entitled to Compensation for any substantial impairment of this reasonable access. The right normally includes the right to have, at some point, a driveway onto his premises. An abutter does not have the right to the continued flow of traffic in the same amount or pattern past his premises." Osborne M. Reynolds, Jr., Handbook of Local Government Law ยง 180, at 620 (1982).2. Land that adjoins the land in question. abutting foot. See FRONT FOOT. a/c. abbr. ACCOUNT
jus abutendi
n. [Latin "right of abusing"] Roman & civil law. The right to make full use of property, even to the extent of wasting or destroying it. Cf. JUS UTENDI.