Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Arrest on mesne process
see arrest
Arrest on mesne process (meen).
hist. Arrest in a civil case before trial takes place .citizen's arrest. An arrest of a private person by another private person on grounds that (1) a public offense was committed in the arrester's presence, or (2) the arrester has reasonable cause to believe that the arrestee has committed a felony.
Jure naturae aequum esneminem cum alterius detrimento et injuria fieri locupletiorem
By the law of nature, it is just that no one should be enriched to the detriment and injury of another.
Mesne assignment
(meen). A middle or intermediate assignment; any assignment before the last one.
Nul prendra advantage de son tort demesne
No one shall take advantage of his own wrong.
Spondesne Spondeo
[Latin] Roman law. Do you agree to undertake?. I undertake. ( This was a common phrase used to create a stipulation. See STIPULATIO.
Un ne doit prise advantage de son tort demesne
One should not take advantage from his own wrong.
aesnecia
[law latin] see es-necy.
ancient demesne
Hist. A manor that was held by the Crown at the time of William the Conqueror and was recorded in the Domesday Book.
court of ancient demesne
Hist. A court made up of freeholders of land held by the Crown (i.e., an ancient demesne). ( The freeholders acted as judges much the same way that freeholders of an ordinary manor would in a court baron. See ancient demesne under DEMESNE; COURT BARON.
de son tort demesne
[Law French] Of a person's own wrong. 0 This is the law French equivalent of the Latin phrase de injuria. See DE INJURIA.
demesne
n. [French] 1. At common law, land held in one's own right, and not through a superior. 2. Domain; realm. - Also spelled demain.
demesne as o f fee
Hist. Complete ownership of something. "But there is this distinction between the two species of hereditaments: that, of a corporeal inheritance a man shall be said to be seised in his demesne, as of fee; of an incorporeal one, he shall only be said to be seised as of fee, and not in his demesne. For, as incorporeal hereditaments are in their nature collateral to, and issue out of, lands and houses, their owner hath no property, dominicum, or demesne, in the thing itself, but hath only something derived out of it; resembling the seroitutes, or services, of the civil law." 2 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 106 (1766).
demesne land
Hist. Land reserved by a lord for personal use. donation land. Land granted from the public domain to an individual as a gift, usu. as a reward for services or to encourage settlement in a remote area. ( The term was initially used in Pennsylvania to reward Revolutionary War soldiers.
demesne land of the Crown
See Crown Ian, under LAND.
esne
n. Hist. A hireling of servile condi tion; a hired laborer or a slave.
esnecy
n. Seniority; the condition or right of the eldest; the privilege of the eldestborn. The term esp. applied to the privilege of the eldest among coparceners to make a first choice of shares upon a voluntary partition. -Also termed aesnecia.
jus aesneciae
n. [Latin] Roman law. The right of primogeniture
mesne
adj. Occupying a middle position; intermediate or intervening <the mesne encumbrance has priority over the third mortgage, but is subordinate to the first mortgage>.
mesne assignment
See ASSIGNMENT (2).
mesne conveyance
See CONVEYANCE.
mesne encumbrance
An intermediate encumbrance; an encumbrance that first occurred both earlier and later than other encumbrances.
mesne lord
Hist. A feudal lord who stood between a tenant and the chief lord, and held land from a superior lord. See LORD (3).
mesne process
1 A process issued between the commencement of a lawsuit and the final judgment or determination. 2. The procedure by which a contumacious defendant is compelled to plead.
mesne profits
The profits of an estate received by a tenant in wrongful possession between two dates. - Also termed (archaically) medium tempus.
mesne, writ of
See DE MEDIO.
son assault demesne
[French "his own assault"] The plea of selfdefense in a tort action, by which the defendant alleges that the plaintiff originally engaged in an assault and that the defendant used only the force necessary to repel the plaintiff's assault and to protect person and property. See SELFDEFENSE.
tenant in demesne
A feudal tenant who holds land of, and owes services to, a tenant in service.
trespass for mesne profits
Hist. An action -supplementing an action for ejectment -brought against a tenant in possession to recover the profits wrongfully received during the tenant's occupation.
writ of mesne
(meen). See DE MEDIO.