Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
comitia
[Latin "assembly"] Roman law. An assembly of the Roman people, gathered together for legislative or judicial purposes.
comitia centuriata
An assembly of the entire populace, voting by centuries (that is, military units) empowered to elect magistrates and to act as a court of appeal in a capital matter.
comitia curiata
An assembly of (originally) patricians whose chief function was to authorize private acts of citizens, such as declaring wills and adoptions. ( The comitia curiata engaged in little legislative activity."[I]n Rome the patrician will, recorded before the Comitia Curiata, was a variety of adoption but disappeared gradually, while the plebeian will, which proved the permanent form, was made by a formal sale, or mancipatio." John Henry Wigmore, Problems of Law 46-47 (1920).
comitia tributa
An assembly of tribes convened to elect lower-ranking officials. ( The comitia tributa undertook a great deal of legislative activity in the later Roman republic. Cf. CONCILIUM PLEBIS
dies comitiales
n. [Latin] Roman law. The 190 days in the year when an election could be held or the people could assemble as a legislative body. 0 The praetors could not hold court while a legislative assembly was in session.