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Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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

after-acquired domicile

A domicile established after the facts relevant to an issue arose. (s An after-acquired domicile cannot be used to establish jurisdiction or choice of law.

commercial domicile

1. A domicile acquired by a nonresident corporation conducting enough activities to permit taxation of the corporation's property or activities located outside the bounds of the taxing state. 2. A domicile acquired by a person or company freely residing or carrying on business in enemy territory or enemy-occupied territory. - Also termed quasi-domicile.

corporate domicile

See DOMICILE

domicile

n. 1. The place at which a person is physically present and that the person regards as home; a person's true, fixed, principal, and permanent home, to which that person intends to return and remain even though currently residing elsewhere. - Also termed permanent abode."By domicile we mean home, the permanent home; and if you do not understand your permanent home, I am afraid that no illustration drawn from foreign writers or foreign languages will very much help you to it." Whicker v. Hume (1858) 7 H.L.C. 124, 160 (per Lord Cranworth)."It is difficult to give a definition of domicil that will cover at once domicil by operation of law and domicil by choice. The idea of domicil certainly includes the idea of place and the idea of settled connection with the place. Domicil of choice is so

domicile o f origin

The domicile of a person at birth, derived from the custodial parent or imposed by law. - Also termed natural domicile.

domicile of choice

1. A domicile established by physical presence within a state or territory, coupled with the intention to make it home. 2. The domicile that a person chooses after reaching majority or being emancipated.

domicile of succession

The domicile that determines the succession of a person's estate.

domicile of trustee

The domicile where a trustee is appointed.

elected domicile

See DOMICILE

foreign domicile

A domicile established by a citizen or subject of one sovereignty within the territory of another.

matrimonial domicile

A domicile that a husband and wife, as a married couple, have established as their home. - Also termed matrimonial home.

municipal domicile

A person's residence in a county or municipality, as distinguished from the person's state or national domicile.

national domicile

A domicile considered in terms of a particular nation rather than a locality or subdivision of a nation.

natural domicile

See domicile of origin.

necessary domicile

A domicile legally fixed and independent of choice, as in the domicile of origin. See domicile of origin.

quasi-domicile

See commercial domicile.

quasi-national domicile

A person's state of residence, as distinguished from the person's national or local domicile.