Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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

alderman

a member of a city council or other local governing body. - also termed alderperson.

aldermannus

[law latin] hist. an alderman.

aldermannus civitatis vel burgi

an alderman of a city or borough.

aldermannus hundredi seu wapentachii

an alderman of a hundred or wapentake.

aldermannus regis

an alderman of the king, so called because he is appointed by the king or gives the king's judgment in the premises allotted to him.

aldermannus totius angliae

an alderman of all england, similar to the chief justiciary of england in later times. see justiciary.