Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
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.
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.