Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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

agio

(aj-ee-oh or ay jee-oh). the premium paid for the exchange of one kind of money for another, such as paper currency for coin or one country's currency for another's.

agiotage .

1. the business of dealing in foreign exchange. 2. speculative buying and selling of securities.

de homagio respectuando

n. [Law Latin "for respiting or postponing homage"] Hist. A writ to postpone an homage. See HOMAGE.

de libero passagio

n. [Law Latin "of free passage"] Hist. A writ allowing free passage over water. 0 This was a form of quod permittat.

de maritagio amisso per defaltam

n.[Law Latin] Hist. A writ available to a tenant of a frankmarriage to regain land lost by de fault.

de scutagio habendo

n. [Law Latin "for having scutage"] Hist. 1. A writ ordering a tenant-in-chief by knight's service to serve in a war, send a substitute, or pay a sum of money. 2. A writ authorizing a lord who had served in the war or paid the required fine, to recover the scutage from his knights' fees. See SCUTAGE.

de tallagio non concedendo

n. [Law Latin "of not granting tallage"] Hist. The title of a statute declaring that no taxes will be imposed by the king or his heirs without the consent of the archbishops, bishops, earls, barons, knights, and other freemen of the realm. 0 The statute has been used to support the constitutional doctrine disallowing taxation except by Parlia ment. 34 Edw. 1 st. 4.

in generali passagio

adv. [Law Latin] Hist. In the general passage (to the holy land with a company of Crusaders). ( This type of pilgrimage excused an absence from court during the Crusades. Cf. SIMPLEX PASSAGIUM.

in libero sochagio

adv. [Law Latin] In free socage. See SOCAGE.

scutagio habendo

See DE SCUTAGIO HABENDO.