Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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Demidietas

n [law Latin] A half; a moiety.

Demilitarization

Int'l law. The process by which a country obligates itself not to station military forces - or to maintain military installations - in specified areas or zones within its territory.

Demimark

See DEMIMARK.

I non demiset

[Latin "he did not demise"] Hist. 1. A defensive plea in an action for rent when the plaintiff failed to plead that the demise was by indenture. ( It could not be used if the plaintiff alleged an indenture. 2. In a replevin action, a plea in bar to an avowry for arrears of rent.

Laudemium

n. [Law Latin] Roman law. A sum paid to a landowner by a person succeeding to a particular form of land contract by gift, devise, exchange, or sale; HERIOT. ( The payment equaled 2% of the purchase money, and was paid to the landowner for acceptance of the successor. - Also termed (in old English law) acknowledgment money. See EMPHYTEUSIS.

Redemise

n. An act or instance of conveying or transferring back (an estate) already demised. - redemise, vb. See DEMISE.

academic

adj. 1. Of or relating to a school or a field of study; esp., of or relating to a field of study that is not vocational or commercial, such as the liberal arts <academic courses>. 2. Theoretical; specif., not practical or immediately useful <academic question>.

academic freedom

The right (esp. of a university teacher) to speak freely about political or ideological issues without fear of loss of position or other reprisal.

academic lawyer

A law professor, usu. one who maintains a law practice on the side.

accredit (a-kred-it), vb. 1. To give official authorization or status to. 2. To recognize (a school) as having sufficient academic standards to qualify graduates for higher education or for profession

capitis deminutio

[Latin "reduction of status"] Romanlaw. A diminution or abridgment of a person's legal status. - Also spelled capitis diminutio. Pl. capitis deminutiones. "Capitis deminutio is the destruction of the 'caput' or legal personality. Capitis deminutio, so to speak, wipes out the former individual and puts a new one in his place, and between the old and the new individual there is, legally speaking, nothing in common. A juristic personality may be thus destroyed in onp of three ways: (1) by loss of the status libertatis. This is the capitis deminutio maxima; (2) by loss of the status civitatis. This is the capitis deminutio media (magna); (3) by severance from the agnatic family. This entails capitis deminutio minima." Rudolph Sohm, The Institutes: A Textbook of the History and System of Roman Private Law 178-79 (James Crawford Ledlie trans., 3d ed. 1907).

demi

n. [French] Half; the half. ( The term is mos often a combining form, as in demi-sangue.

demi-sangue

[Law French] Half-blood; blood on either the father's or the mother's side. - Also termed demy-sangue.

demilitarized zone

Int'l law. A territorial area in which a country is obligated not to station military forces or maintain military installations.

deminutio

n. (fr. Latin deminuere "taking away"] Roman law. A deprivation or loss. ( The term appeared, for example, in the phrase capitis deminutio "the loss of civil status." - Also spelled diminutio.

demise

n. 1. The conveyance of an estate by will or lease <the demise of the land for one year>. 2. The instrument by which such a conveyance is accomplished <the demise set forth the terms of the transfer>. 3. The passing of property by descent or bequest <a testator's demise of $100,000 to charity>. 4. The death of a person or (figuratively) of a thing <the corporation's untimely demise>. -Abbr. dem. - demise, ub.

demise charter

A charter under which the ship owner surrenders possession and control of the vessel to the charterer, who then succeeds to many of the shipowner's rights and

demise charterer

See demise charter under charter.

demise of the Crown

The immediate, automatic transfer of a kingdom to a successor upon a sovereign's death or long absence from the throne."The king never dies. Henry, Edward, or George may die; but the king survives them all. For immediately upon the decease of the reigning prince in his natural capacity, his kingship or imperial dignity, by act of law, without any ... interval, is vested at once in his heir; who is, eo instanti, king to all intents and purposes. And so tender is the law of supposing even a possibility of his death, that his natural dissolution is generally called his demise .an expression which signifies merely a transfer of property; for . . . when we say the demise of the crown, we mean only that, in consequence of the disunion of the king's body natural from his body politic, the kingdom is transferred or demised to his successor; and so the royal dignity remains perpetual." 1 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 242 (1765).

demised premises

Property that has been leased.

demisi

[fr. Latin demittere] I have demised. ( This was the operative phrase in a lease.

demissio

n. [fr. Latin demittere "to demise"] Hist. A lease or other transfer. ( In an ejectment action, this term was used in the phrase ex demissione ("on the demise") to show that a nominal plaintiff' (a fictitious person) held an estate on a demise from the real plaintiff.

ex demissione

[Latin "upon the demise"] Hist. A phrase forming part of the title of the old action of ejectment. - Abbr. ex dem.

joint demise

In an ejectment action, a demise made by two or more persons in one declaration.

separate demise

In an ejectment action, a demise made solely by the lessor.

several demise

(often pl.) Hist. In an ejectment action, a list of demises by all people potentially owning the property at issue, used to ensure that the plaintiff had proved a lease from the person actually having title. See EJECTMENT.

several demises.

See DEMISE.

single demise

In an ejectment action, a declaration containing one demise. See EJECTMENT.