Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
ambit
1. a space surrounding a house or town. 2. a boundary line; an enclosing line or limit.
ambitus
n. [latin ambitus "deviousness, corruption"] hist. the procuring of a public office by money or gifts; the unlawful buying and selling of a public office.
de ambitu
[Latin "of going around"] Of devious methods of securing a position, as through bribery. 0 Several Roman laws (such as the Lex Julia de Ambitu) dealt with this problem.
lex Julia de ambitu
n. [Latin] Roman law. A law discouraging illegal means of office-seeking.