Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Nul prendra advantage de son tort demesne
No one shall take advantage of his own wrong.
Un ne doit prise advantage de son tort demesne
One should not take advantage from his own wrong.
ancient demesne
Hist. A manor that was held by the Crown at the time of William the Conqueror and was recorded in the Domesday Book.
court of ancient demesne
Hist. A court made up of freeholders of land held by the Crown (i.e., an ancient demesne). ( The freeholders acted as judges much the same way that freeholders of an ordinary manor would in a court baron. See ancient demesne under DEMESNE; COURT BARON.
de son tort demesne
[Law French] Of a person's own wrong. 0 This is the law French equivalent of the Latin phrase de injuria. See DE INJURIA.
demesne
n. [French] 1. At common law, land held in one's own right, and not through a superior. 2. Domain; realm. - Also spelled demain.
demesne as o f fee
Hist. Complete ownership of something. "But there is this distinction between the two species of hereditaments: that, of a corporeal inheritance a man shall be said to be seised in his demesne, as of fee; of an incorporeal one, he shall only be said to be seised as of fee, and not in his demesne. For, as incorporeal hereditaments are in their nature collateral to, and issue out of, lands and houses, their owner hath no property, dominicum, or demesne, in the thing itself, but hath only something derived out of it; resembling the seroitutes, or services, of the civil law." 2 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 106 (1766).
demesne land
Hist. Land reserved by a lord for personal use. donation land. Land granted from the public domain to an individual as a gift, usu. as a reward for services or to encourage settlement in a remote area. ( The term was initially used in Pennsylvania to reward Revolutionary War soldiers.
demesne land of the Crown
See Crown Ian, under LAND.
son assault demesne
[French "his own assault"] The plea of selfdefense in a tort action, by which the defendant alleges that the plaintiff originally engaged in an assault and that the defendant used only the force necessary to repel the plaintiff's assault and to protect person and property. See SELFDEFENSE.
tenant in demesne
A feudal tenant who holds land of, and owes services to, a tenant in service.