Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Curtilage
The land or yard adjoining a house, usu. within an enclosure. ( Under the Fourth Amendment, the curtilage is an area usu. protected from warrantless searches. See OPEN-FIELDS DOCTRINE. Cf MESSUAGE.
Keelage
Hist. 1. The right to the demand payment of a toll by a ship entering or anchoring in a harbor. 2. The toll so paid.
Pillage
n. 1. The forcible seizure of another's property, esp. in war; esp., the wartime plundering of a city or territory. 2. The property so seized or plundered; BOOTY. - pillage, vb. - Also termed plunder.
Stallage
n. Hist. 1. The right to erect stalls in public markets. 2. The cost for that right.
Tillage
n. A place tilled or cultivated; land under cultivation as opposed to land lying fallow or in pasture.
Tollage
1. Payment of a toll. 2. Money charged or paid as a toll. 3. The liberty or franchise of charging a toll.
Tutelage
n. 1. The act of protecting or guiding; guardianship. 2. Int'l law. The state of being under the care and management of an international organization such as the League of Nations or United Nations. ( This term applies, for example, to the status of a people who do not yet benefit from a fully operational government of their own - such as people displaced by war and living in a territory that will in the future be given its autonomy.
Ullage
The amount that a cask of liquid lacks from being full.
Utlage
law French] An outlaw.
Village
1. Traditionally, a modest assemblage of houses and buildings for dwellings and businesses. 2. In some states, a municipal corporation with a smaller population than a city. -Also termed (in sense 2) town; borough.
carcelage
[fr. Latin carcer "prison"] Hist. Prison fees.
diallage
n. [fr. Greek diallage "interchange"] A rhetorical figure of speech in which arguments are placed in several points of view, and then brought to bear on one point.
furca et flagellum
[Law Latin] Hist. Gallows and whip. 0 This referred to the basest of servile tenures - the tenant was completely at the mercy of the lord.
hallage
n. Hist. A fee or toll due for goods or merchandise sold in a hall used as a market; a toll payable to the lord of a fair or market for commodities sold in the common hall.
haulage royalty
See ROYALTY (2)
lage
n. [fr' Saxon lag "law"] Hist. 1. Law. 2. The territory in which certain law was in force, such as danelage, mercenlage, and West-Saxon lage. 0 This term is essentially an obsolete form of the word law. - Also termed lagh; lags; lagu. See DANELAW; MERCENLAGE; WEST-SAXON LAW.
lage day
A law day; a juridical day; a day of open court. - Also termed lagh day. lageman (law-man or lay-man) See ,EGALIs HOMO.
lagend
See LAGAN.
mercenlage
[fr. Saxon myrcnalag] The law of the Mercians. ( This was one of the three principal legal systems prevailing in England at the beginning of the 11th century. It was observed in many midland counties and those bordering on Wales. - Also spelled
merchenlage
- Also termed lex merciorum (leks mar-shee-or-am); Mercian law (mar-shee-an or mar-shan). See DANELAW; WEST SAXON LAW. "[A]bout the beginning of the eleventh century there were three principal systems of laws prevailing in different districts . . . . The Mercen-Lage, or Mercian laws, which were observed in many of the midland counties, and those bordering on the principality of Wales; the retreat of the ancient Britons; and therefore very probably intermixed with the British or Druidical customs." 1 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 65 (1765).
millage rate.
See MILL RATE.
naulage
n. [Old French fr. Law Latin naulagium "passage money"] The fare for passengers or goods traveling by ship. See NAULUM.
tenure ad furcam et flagellum
[Latin] Hist. Tenure by gallows and whip. ( This was the meanest of the servile tenures - the bondman was at the disposal of the lord for life and limb.
vassalage
, n. Hist. 1. The state of being a vassal or feudatory. - Also termed vasseleria. 2. The service required of a vassal. - Also termed vassaticum; main-rent. 3. The territory held by a vassal; a fief or fee. 4. Vassals collectively. 5. The dominion or authority of a feudal superior over vassals. 6. Political servility; subjection.
wheelage
, n. Hist. A duty or toll for a vehicle to pass over certain property.