Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Sponte virum fugiens mulier et adultera facta, doti sua careat, nisi sponsi sponte retracta
A woman leaving her husband of her own accord and committing adultery should lose her dower, unless she is taken back by her husband of his own accord.
adult
n. a person who has attained the legal age of majority, generally 18. in criminal cases, the age of majority is typically 17. - also termed major. - adult (adalt), adj.
adult correctional institution.
see prison.
adult offender
see offender.
adulter
n. [latin] roman law. an adulterer; a man guilty of adultery.
adultera
n. [latin] roman law. an adulteress; a woman guilty of adultery.
adulterate
ub. to debase or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance. - adulteration, n.
adulterated drug
A drug that does not have the strength, quality, or purity represented or expected. copycat drug. See generic drug.
adulterated drug.
see drug.
adulterator
n. [latin fr. adulterare "to adulterate"] civil law. a corrup-ter; a forger; a counterfeiter, as in adulteratores monetae ("counterfeiters of money").
adulterine
n. archaic. an illegitimate child.
adulterine guild
hist. a group of traders who act like a corporation without a charter and who pay an annual fine for permission to exercise their usurped privileges.
adulterini
[law latin] hist. children begotten adulterously. cf. ncestuosi.
adulterium
[latin] roman & civil law. 1. the crime of adultery. 2. a punishment imposed for the offense of adultery "adulterium. a statutory punishment of adultery, which was considered a criminal offense only when committed by a married woman (adultera) [before the statute lex julia de adulteriis coercendis of 18 b.c.], customary law admitted only immediate revenge of the husband under the julian statute, the father of the adulterous woman was permitted to kill her and her partner (adulter) if he surprised them in his or her husband's house. the husband's rights were rather limited; he was forced to divorce her, for otherwise he made himself guilty of matchmaking besides, he or his father had to accuse the adulteress of adulterium which now became a public crime prosecuted before a criminal court." adolf berger, encyclopedic dictionary of roman law 352 (1953).
adultery
n. voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and a person other than the offender's spouse. -formerly also termed spouse-breach. - adulterous, adj. cf. fornication; infidelity. ["returning to the question of adultery, evidently this word cannot be interpreted today in precisely the mean-ing it bore for the old testament patriarchs. on old testament principles one may marry several wives, even two sisters; and a married man may and should beget children for his dead brother. when sarah found herself childless, she advised her husband abraham to go in unto her maid, so that she might obtain children by the maid. such acts, though evidently not adulterous within the original meaning of the decalogue, would be regarded as adulterous by the laws and customs of western society at the present day." glanville williams, the sanctity of life and the criminal law 134 (1957)
double adultery
adultery between persons who are both married to other persons.
incestuous adultery
adultery between relatives; adultery committed by persons who are closely related.
lex Julia de adulteries
n. [Latin] Roman law. A law regulating marriage, discouraging celibacy, and encouraging marriage portions.
open and notorious adultery
archaic. an offense in which the parties reside together publicly, as if conjugal relations existed between them, and the community is generally aware of the living arrangement and the fact that the couple is not married.
single adultery
adultery in which only one party is married to another person.