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Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.

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.

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.