Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
A tort ou a droit
[law french] right or wrong.
Academie de Droit International de La Haye
See HAGUE ACADEMY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW.
Autre droit
[law french] in right of another. ( this phrase describes the manner in which a trustee holds property for a beneficiary.
Dieu et mon droit
[French "God and my right"] The motto of the royal arms of England. 9 It was first used by Richard I and, with the exception of Elizabeth I, was continually used from Edward III to William III, who used the motto je maintiendrey. Queen Anne used Elizabeth I's motto, semper eadem, but Dieu et mon droit has been used since her death.
Droit ne done pluis que soft demaunde
The law gives no more than is demanded.
Droit ne poet pas morier
Right cannot die.
Home ne sera puny pur suer den briefer en court le roy, soit il a droit ou a tort
A person shall not be punished for suing out writs in the king's court, whether the person is right or wrong.
Nul charter, nul vente, ne nul done vault perpetualment, si le donor West seine al temps de contracts de deux droits, sc. del droit de possession et del droit de proper ite
No grant, no sale, no gift, is valid foreveunless the donor, at the time of the contract, i seised of two rights, namely, the right of T);, session and the right of propert
a bon droit
[Law French] With good reason; justly; rightfully. aboriginal cost. See COST (1). aboriginal title. See INDIAN TITLE.
de comon droit
[Law French] Hist. By the common law; of common right. See COMMON LAW.
droit
[French "right"] 1. A legal right or claim. 2. The whole body of law.
droit common
n. [Law French] The common law. - Also termed droit coutumier See COMMON LAW (2).
droit coutumier
See DROIT COMMON.
droit d'accession
n. [French "right of accession"] French law. A property right acquired by making, from existing material, something new that cannot be reduced to the original material's shape. a This is the equivalent to the Roman specificatio. See ACCESSION (4).DROIT D'ACCESSION . . . . The civil law rule is that if the thing can be reduced to the former matter it belongs to the owner of the matter, e.g. a statue made of gold; but if it cannot so be reduced it belongs to the person who made it, e.g. a statue mad
droit d'accroissement
n. [French] French law. A right of survivorship by which an heir's interest is combined with the interest of a coheir who either has refused or is unable to accept the interest.
droit d'aubaine
n. [Law French "right of alienage"] Hist. With certain exceptions, a sovereign's right to a deceased alien's property, regardless of whether the alien had a will. ( This right was primarily exercised in France where it was revived in some form by Napoleon after its initial abolishment in 1790. It was ultimately abolished in 1819. - Also spelled droit d'aubaigne; droit d'aubenage. - Also termed jus albanagii; jus albinatus"Under the French rule of law, known as the droit d'aubaine ... the whole property of an alien dying in France without leaving children born in that country escheated to the crown. The royal right was not universally exacted, and at a very early period sp
droit d'execution
n. [French "right of execution"] French law. 1. A stockbroker's right to sell the stock bought for a client who later refuses it. 2. A stockbroker's right to sell deposited securities to secure the broker against a loss in buying for a client.
droit de bris
n. [Law French "right of a wreck"] Hist. A right claimed by lords of the coasts of France to fragments of shipwrecks, including persons or property that had washed ashore. ( The right was exercised primarily in Bretagne but was abrogated by Henry III as duke of Normandy, Aquitaine, and Guienne, in a charter granted in A.D. 1226. -Also termed droit de bris sur le naufrages. Cf. DROIT DE NAUFRAGE.
droit de detraction
n. [French "the right of withdrawal"] Int'l law. A tax on property acquired by succession or by will and then removed to another state or country.
droit de garde
n. [French "right of ward"] Hist. French law. A king's right to wardship of a noble vassal who has not reached majority.
droit de gite
n. [French "right of lodging"] Hist. French law. A duty of a commoner holding land in the royal domain to provide lodging and food to a royal party traveling on royal business.
droit de greffe
n. [French "a right concerning the clerk's office"] Hist. French law. The Crown's privilege to sell offices connected with the custody of judicial records or official acts.
droit de maitrise
n. [French "a right of mastership"] Hist. French law. A required payment to the Crown by an apprentice who has become a master worker.
droit de naufrage
n. [French] Hist. French law. The right of a sovereign or a lord owning a seashore to seize the wreckage of a shipwreck and kill the crew or sell them as slaves. Cf. DROIT DE BRIS.Louis XI exempted merchants of Brabant, Flanders, Holland, and Zealand from the operation of the law, and a similar privilege was extended by Henri II to merchants of the Hanse towns, and from Scotland." 1 R.H. Inglis Palgrave, Palgrave's Dictionary of Political Economy 68 (Henry Higgs ed., 2d ed. 1925)."In France by the fourteenth century it was accepted that a stranger might acquire and possess but not inherit or transmit by will or on intestacy. In 1386 the French king assumed the seigneurial droit d'aubaine or right to inherit. In treaties in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the right was frequently renounced. Louis XVI in 1787 abolished the right as against subjects of Great Britain without reciprocity. The constituent Assembly abolished the right in 1790 and it was commonly a
droit de prise
n. [French "a right of prize"] Hist. French law. A commoner's duty to supply articles on credit to the royal household for domestic consumption.
droit de quint
n. [French "the right of a fifth"] Hist. French law. A required payment made by a noble vassal to the king each time ownership of the vassal's fief changed.
droit de suite
n. [French "right to follow"] A creditor's right to recover a debtor's property after it passes to a third party.
droit du seigneur
[French "right of the lord"] Hist. 1. A supposed customary right of a feudal lord to have sexual intercourse with a tenant's bride on her wedding night. 2. A supposed custom requiring sexual abstinence by a couple on their wedding night. - Also spelled droit de seigneur. - Also termed jus primae noctis.
droit ecrit
n. [French "the written law"] French law. The civil law; the corpus juris ciuilis.
droit international
n. [French] International law.
droit maritime
Frenchl
droit moral
[French] The doctrine of moral right, which entitles artists to prevent others from altering their works. ( The basic rights protected by this doctrine are (1), the right to create, (2) the right to disclose or publish, (3) the right to withdraw from publication, (4) the right to be identified with the: work, and (5) the right to ensure the integrity of the work, including the right to object to any mutilation or distortion of the work. These .rights are sometimes called moral right. See MORAL RIGHT.
droit-close
n. [Law French] Hist. A writ against a lord on behalf of a tenant in ancient demesne holding land by charter in fee simple, in fee-tail, for life, or in dower.
droit-droit
n. [Law French "double right"] Hist. The unification of the right of possession with the right of property. - Also termed jus duplicatum; dreit dreit."A complete title to lands, tenements, and hereditaments. For it is an ancient maxim of the law, that no title is completely good, unless the right of possession be joined with the right of property; which right is then denominated a double right, jus duplicatum, or droit droit. And when to this double right the actual possession is also united . . . then, and then only, is the title completely legal." 2 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 199 (1766).
droits ciuils
n. J French:; French law. Private rights not connected to a person's civil status. ( Foreigners had certain rights that could be enforced when there was reciprocity with the foreigner's home country.
droits of admiralty
n. The Lord High Admiral's rights in connection with the sea, such as the right to recover proceeds from shipwrecks, enemy goods confiscated at the beginning of hostilities, jetsam, flotsam, treasure, deodand, fines, forfeitures, sturgeons, whales, and other large fishes. 0 The droit proceeds are paid to the Exchequer's office for the public's use. See PRIZE (2)."The crown had originally certain rights to property found upon the sea, or stranded upon the shore. The chief kinds of property to which the crown was thus entitled were, great fish (such as whales or porpoises, deodands, wreck of the sea, flotsam, jetsa
droitural
adj. [fr. Old French droiture "right"] Of or relating to an interest in property. as distinguished from actual posession.
en autre droit
[French] In the right of another, as when an executor sues on behalf of the estate. - Also spelled in autre droit. See AUTRE DROIT.
fine sur cognizance de droit tantum
[Law French "fine upon acknowledgment of the right merely"] Hist. A fine of conveyance that does not acknowledge a prior conveyance of land. ( This type of fine was used to convey reversionary interests - that is, interests that did not require acknowledgment of an earlier livery of seisin. See FINE (1).
fine sur cognizance de droit, comme ceo que il ad de son done
[Law French "a fine upon acknowledgment of the right, as that which he has of his gift"] Hist. The most common fine of conveyance, by which the defendant (also called the deforciant) acknowledged in court that he had already con- veyed the property to the cognizee. 0 This form of conveyance took the place of an actual livery of seisin. See FINE (1). "But, in general, the first species of fine, 'sur cognizance de droit come ceo, etc.,' is the most used, as it conveys a clean and absolute freehold, and gives the cognizee a seisin in law, without an actual livery; and is therefore called a fine executed, whereas the others are but executory." 2 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 353 (1766).
mitten le droit
[Law I,'rench] Hist. By passing the right. ( This described how releases became effective, as when a person disseised of land released the estate to the disseisor, at which time the right and possession combined to give the disseisor the entire estate.
monstrans de droit
[Law French] Hist. A manifestation of right as a method of obtaining restitution from the Crown. ( It was replaced by the writ of right. Currently, restitution is obtained by an ordinary action against the government.
petition de droit
See PETITION OF RIGHT.
philosophic du droit
See ethical, jurisprudence under jurisprudence.
soit droit fait al partie
[Law French] Hist. Let right be done to the party. 0 This phrase is written on a petition of right and subscribed by the Crown.