Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
brethren
n. pl. Brothers, esp. those considered spiritual kin (such as male colleagues on a court) <my brethren argue in the dissent that my statutory interpretation is faulty>. 0 The use of this collegial term has naturally dwindled as more women have entered law and esp. into the judiciary. Cf. SISTREN.
elder brethren
A distinguished body of men elected as masters of Trinity House, an institution incorporated in the reign of Henry VIII and charged with many duties in marine affairs, such as superintending lighthouses. ( The full title of the corporation is Elder Brethren of the Holy and Undivided Trinity.