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.