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Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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

A piratis et latronibus capta dominium non mutant.

Things captured by pirates or robbers do not change their ownership.

Cujus est dominium, ejus est periculum

The risk lies upon the owner.

Dominium non potest esse in pendenti

The right of property cannot be in abeyance.

Duorum in solidum dominium vel possessio esse non potest

Ownership or possession in entirety cannot belong to two persons.

Furtum non est ubi initium habet detentionis per dominium rei

There is not theft where the holder has a beginning of detention (began holding the object) through ownership of the thing.

Qui in jus dominiumve alterius succedit jure qjus uti debet

One who succeeds to another's right or property ought to use that person's right.( That is, the successor has the same rights and liabilities as attached to that property or interest in the hands of the assignor.

Usus est dominium fiduciarium

Use is a fiduciary ownership.

Vus est periculum cujus est dominium aut commodum

He who has the dominion or advantage has the risk.

condominium

1. Ownership in common with others. 2. A single realestate unit in a multi-unit development in which a person has both separate ownership of a unit and a common interest, along with the development's other owners, in the common areas. Cf. COOPERATIVE (2). Pl. (for sense 2) condominiums.

dominium

n. [fr. Latin dominus "lord"] 1. Roman law. Absolute ownership including the right to possession and use. This term gradually came to also mean merely ownership of property, as distinguished from the right to possession or use. "Dominium is the Roman term for the rights of an owner against all the world: and the contrast of domaneum and obligatio is the nearest approach that can be made, in classical Roman language, to the distinction marked by the modern terms in rem and in personam." Frederick Pollock, A First Book of Jurisprudence 83 (1896)."The one word dominium has to assume so many shades of meaning. The tenant qui tenet terram in dominico, is dominus rei and has dominium rei; but then he has above him one who is his dominus, and for the rights of this lord over him and over his land ther

dominium directum

n. [Law Latin] Civil law. Legal, not equitable, ownership.

dominium directum et utile

n. [Law Latin] Civil law. Complete ownership of property, including both title and exclusive use.

dominium eminens

n. [Law Latin] Civil law. Eminent domain. See EMINENT DOMAIN.

dominium plenum

n. [Law Latinj Civil low. Full owner-ship combining dominium directum and dominium utile. - Also termed plenum dominium.

dominium utile

n. [Law Latin] Civil law. Equitable ownership; a beneficial right to use property; the right of a tenant to use the soil and its profits. "The special characteristic of Feudal land was that ownership in it was split into two kinds, the dominium directum of the superior (lord) and the dominium utile of the vassal. The feudists correctly insisted that this was not a form of joint ownership,

litis dominium

n. [Latin] See DOMINUS LITIS.

plenum dominium

See dominium plenum under DOMINIUM (1).