Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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nativus
, n. [Law Latin] Hist. A person who is born a villein or serf. "Having seen what serfdom means, we may ask how men become serfs. The answer is that almost always the serf is a born serf; natiuus and uillanus were commonly used as interchangeable terms --------1 Frederick Pollock & Frederic W. Maitland, The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward 1422 (2d ed. 1898).
nominativus pendens
n. [Latin "nominative hanging"] In a sentence, a nominative phrase that is not grammatically connected with the rest of the sentence. - Also termed nominative absolute."Nominativus pendens . . . . The opening words in the form of a deed inter partes ('This deed,' etc., down to 'whereas'), though an intelligible and convenient part of the deed, having regard to the predicate 'witnesseth' or 'nor this deed witnesseth,' are sometimes of this kind." William A. Jowitt, The Dictionary of English Law 1230 (1959).