Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
de averiis captis in withernamium
n. [Law Latin "for taking cattle in withernam"] Hist. A writ directing a sheriff to detain a defendant's cattle because the defendant had unlawfully taken the plaintiff's cattle out of the county. 0 The defendant's cattle would be detained until the sheriff could replevy the plaintiff's cattle.
de executione facienda in withernamium
n. [Law Latin "for mak ing execution in withernam"] Hist. A writ of execution in withernam. ( This is a type of capis in withernam directing the sheriff to takefrom the defendant goods equal in value to the goods that the defendant took from the plain tiff.
de homine capto in withernamium
[Law Latin "for taking a man in withernam"] Hist. A writ to seize and jail a person who took a bondman out of the county to keep the bond man from being replevied. ( The defendant was jailed without bail until the bondman was re turned. See WITIIERNAM.
executione facienda in withernamium
[Latin] Hist. A writ that lay for taking cattle of a person who had taken someone else's cattle out of the county so that the sheriff could not replevy them.
homine capto in withernamium
[Law Latin "for taking a man in withernam"] Hist. A writ for the arrest of a person who had taken a bondman out of the country to prevent a replevy. See WITHERNAM.
namium
, n. [Law ~atin] Hist, The act of distraining property.
namium vetitum
, n. [Law Latin "taking prohibited"] Hist. A refused or prohibited taking or redelivery. ( This term is most often associated with the circumstance in which a lord's bailiff distrained animals or goods, and was ordered by the lord to take them to an unknown place or otherwise not to redeliver them when the sheriff came to replevy them. - Also termed vetitum namium.
repetitum namium
[Law Latin] Hist. A second, repeated, or reciprocal distress; WITHERNAM.
vetitum namium
, n. [Law Latin "a prohibited taking"] Hist. See NAMIUM VETITUM.