Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
breve de recto
See DE RECTO.
breve magnum de recto
See DE RECTO PATENS.
de recto
n. [Law Latin] A writ of right to recover both the seisin and the property. - Also termed breue de recto. See WRIT OF RIGHT.
de recto de advocatione
Wee rek-toh dee adva-kay-shee-oh-nee), n. [Law Latin "of the right of advowson"] Hist. A writ restoring a person's right to present a clerk to a benefice when that right had been interfered with. 0 It was abolished by St. 3 & 4 Will. 4, ch. 27.
de recto de rationabili parte
n. [Law Latin "of right of reasonable part"] Hist. A writ allowing one coparcener or blood relative owning land in fee simple to obtain a rightful share from the other. 0 It was abolished by St. 3 & 4 Will. 4, ch. 27.
de recto patens
n. [Law Latin "of right patent"] Hist. The highest writ of right under the law given to an owner in fee simple to recover the possession and use of land from the freehold tenant. - Also termed breue magnum de recto.