Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
agri
n. pl. [latin] lands.
agri limitati
[latin "fields limited" or "lands enclosed by boundaries"] roman & civil law. lands whose boundaries have been fixed by a surveyor. ( they included land belonging to the state by right of conquest, and granted and sold in individual plots.
agribusiness
the pursuit of agriculture as an occupation or profit-making enterprise, including labor, land-use planning, and financing the cost of land, equipment, and other necessary expenses.
agricultural adjustment act
a federal statute, enacted in 1933, that paid farmers to not produce crops in an effort to raise crop prices. the u.s. supreme court declared the act unconstitutional in 1936 on grounds that con-gress had overstepped its power to regulate commerce. a second, more limited agricultural adjustment act was enacted in 1938. - abbr. aaa.
agricultural labor
work that is performed on a farm or ranch, or that pertains to the production of commodities, such as harvesting crops, raising livestock, or obtaining milk, honey, or other animal products. ( agricultural labor is often excluded from certain labor laws, such as unemployment insurance and workers' com-pensation.
agricultural lien
1 A statutory lien that protects a seller of farming equipment by giving the seller a lien on crops grown with the equipment. 2. Secured transactions. An interest (other than a security interest) in farm products having three characteristics: (1) it must secure payment or performance of an obligation for goods or services furnished in connection with a debtor's farming operation, or of an obligation for rent on real property leased by a debtor in connection with farming; (2) it must be created by statute in favor of a person either who in the ordinary course of business furnished goods or services to a debtor in connection with the debtor's farming, or who leased real property to a debtor in connection with the debtor's farming; and (3) the effectiveness of the interest must not depend on the person's possession of the personal property. UCC § 9-102(a)(3).
agriculture
the science or art of cultivating soil, harvesting crops, and raising livestock. "'agriculture' is broader in meaning than 'farming'; and while it includes the preparation of soil, the planting of seeds, the raising and harvesting of crops, and all their incidents, it also includes gardening, horticulture, viticulture, dairying, poultry, bee raising, and ranching." 3 am. jur. 2d agriculture § 1, at 934-35 (1986).