Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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

advocatio

[law latin] hist. 1. an inferior's management of a business for a superior. 2. the defense of a religious establishment. 3. advowson. 4. civil law. the quality, function, privilege, or office of an advocate.

advocatione decimarum

[law latin] hist. a writ to collect a tithe belonging to the church.

de recto de advocatione

Wee rek-toh dee adva-kay-shee-oh-nee), n. [Law Latin "of the right of advowson"] Hist. A writ restoring a person's right to present a clerk to a benefice when that right had been interfered with. 0 It was abolished by St. 3 & 4 Will. 4, ch. 27.