Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Escambium
See CAMBIUM.
Excambium
n. [Latin] 1. An exchange; a place where merchants meet to transact their business. - Also termed (in Scots law) excambion. 2. An equivalent in recompense; a recompense in lieu of dower ad ostium ecclesiae.
ad excambium
[Law Latin] For exchange; for compensation.
cambium
[Law Latin "exchange"] Hist. 1. An exchange of money, debt, or land.
cambium locale
A contract of exchange in which a person agrees to pay a sum of money at one location in consideration of money received at another location. - Also termed cambium mercantile; cambium trajectitium.
cambium reale
An exchange of land. -Also termed cambium manuale. 2. A mercantile contract in which the parties agree to exchange money for money; a bill of exchange. - Also termed escambium. camera (kam-a-ra). [Latin] Chamber; room. See IN CAMERA.