Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
capitula
[Law Latin "chapters"] Hist. 1. Collections of laws or ordinances organized under various headings. - Also termed capitulary. 2. Chapters or assemblies of ecclesiastical persons.
capitula coronae
[Latin "chapters of the Crown"] Hist. A more detailed form of the articles of the eyre. See ARTICLES OF THE EYRE.
capitula de judaeis
[Latin "chapters on the Jews"] Hist. i. Laws concerning the Jews. 2. Questions posed by the justices in eyre to determine the amount a Jew would pay to receive the king's protection and a license to conduct business. 0 The capitula de judaeis reflected the pervasive antiSemitism of medieval England. Cf. ARTICLES OF THE EYRE.
capitula itineris
[Law Latin "chapters of the eyre"] See ARTICLES OF THE EYRE.
capitulary
[Latin "chapter or section (of a code) "] Any orderly and systematic collection or code of laws. See CAPITULA (1).
capitulation
n. 1. The act of surrendering or giving in. 2. Int'l law. An agreement to surrender a fortified place or a military or naval force. 0 A commander in control may generally make such an agreement for the place or force. 3. Hist. An agreement between a Christian state and a non-Christian one (such as the Ottoman Empire) giving subjects of the former certain privileges in the territory of the latter. - capitulate, vb. -capitulatory, adj.