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Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.

Dismemberment

Archaic. Int'l law. 1. The disappearance of a country as a result of a treaty or an annexation, whereby it becomes part of one or more other countries. 2. The reduction of a country's territory by annexation or cession, or the secession of one part. 3. The extin-guishment of a country and the creation of two or more new countries from the former country's territory.

disme

n. [Law French] A tithe; a tenth part, as in a tithe due the clergy equal to the tenth of all spiritual livings as required by the statute 25 Edw. 3, st. 7. 0 This is the Law French equivalent to the Latin decimae. Pl. dismes. See DECIMAE.