Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
damnosa hereditas
n. [Latin "a losing inheritance"] 1. Roman & civil law. An inheritance more onerous than beneficial, esp. because it is burdened with debt. 2. English law. Property of a bankrupt that creditors will disclaim under the bankruptcy laws because income from the property will exceed revenues. 3. Generally, anything that is acquired but turns out to be disadvantageous. - Also spelled damnosa haereditas.
hereditas
n. [Latin] 1. Roman law. An inheritance by universal succession to a decedent. ( This succession applied whether the decedent died testate or intestate, and whether in trust (ex fideicommisso) for another or not. The comparable right under Praetorian law was bonorum possessio, possession of an inheritance that could be the basis of a right to succeed. 2. Hist. An estate transmissible by descent; an inheritance. - Also spelled haereditas.
hereditas damnosa
A burdensome inheritance; an inheritance whose debts exceed its assets.
hereditas jacens
[Latin iaceo "to lie"] 1. Property belonging to an estate before an heir accepts it. ( This term had a similar meaning at common law. See ABEYANCE (2).
hereditas legitima
A succession or inheritance devolving by operation of law rather than by will. See INTESTACY.
hereditas luctuosa
A sad or mournful inheritance; one that disturbs the natural order of mortality (turbato ordine mortalitatis), as that of a parent inheriting a child's estate. a This term is more literary than legal. - Also termed tristis successio.
hereditas testamentaria
Testamentary inheritance; succession to an estate under a decedent's will.
luctuosa hereditas
n. [Latin "mournful inheritance"] See hereditas luctuosa under HEREDITAS.