Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Derelict
n. 1. Personal property abandoned or thrown away by the owner with an intent to no longer claim it, such as a boat deserted or abandoned at sea by a master or crew.
Occupantis hunt derelicta
Things abandoned become the property of the (first) occopant
derelict
adj. 1. Forsaken; abandoned; cast away <derelict property>.
dereliction
n. 1. Abandonment, esp. through neglect or moral wrong.dereliction in the performance of duties. Military law. Willful or negligent failure to perform assigned duties; culpable inefficiency in performing assigned duties. 2. An increase of land caused by the receding of a sea, river, or stream from its usual watermark. See RELICTION.
jus relictae
n. [Law Latin "right of a widow"] Civil & Scots law. A widow's claim to her share of her deceased husband's movable estate. 0 If the widow has children, her share is one-third; if not, her share is onehalf.
jus relicti
n. [Law Latin "right of a widower"] Civil & Scots law. A widower's right in his deceased wife's separate movable estate, historically two-thirds if there were surviving children, and otherwise one-half. Under the Married Women's Property Act of 1881, the amount became one-third in the case of surviving children, and otherwise one-half.
pro derelicto
[latin] As derelict or abandoned. ( This refers to proper subject to usucaption. See USUCAPIo.
quasi-derelict
A ship that has been abandoned temporarily or involuntarily. 2. Land uncovered by receding water from its former bed. 3. A street person or vagrant; a hobo.
quasi-derelict.
temporarily or involuntarily deserted or abandoned, as when the crew is dead or otherwise incapable of navigating the ship.2. Lacking a sense of duty; in breach of a legal or moral obligation <the managers were unquestionably derelict in their duties>.
relict
A widow,
relicta verificatione
[Latin "his pleading being abandoned"] Hist. A confession of judgment accompanied by a withdrawal of the plea. See COGNOVIT ACTIONEM.
reliction
1. A process by which a river or stream shifts its location, causing the recession of water from its bank. 2. The alteration of a boundary line because of the gradual removal of land by a river or stream. See ACCRETION; DERELICTION.
res derelicta
[Latin] A thing thrown away or forsaken by its owner; abandoned property.