Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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

action per quod servitium amisit

[Latin] Hist. An action for the loss of a servant's services.

action per quod servitium amisit.

See ACTION.

liberum servitium

n. [Law Latin] See SERVITIUM LIBERUM.

per quod servitium amisit

[Law Latin] Hist. Whereby he lost the services (of his servant). ( This phrase was used in a trespass declaration to describe the loss suffered by a master whose servant had been injured by another.

servitium

n. [Latin "service"] Hist. The duty of service; esp., a duty of performance and obedience of a tenant to the lord.

servitium feodale et praediale

n. [Law Latin] Hist. A personal service due only by reason of lands held in fee.

servitium forinsecum

n. [Law Latin] Hist. A service due the king rather than a lord.

servitium intrinsecum

n. [Law Latin] Hist. The ordinary service due from a tenant to the chief lord.

servitium liberum

n. [Law Latin] Hist. The service by a free tenant (not a vassal) to the lord, as by attending the lord's court or accompanying the lord into military service. - Also termed liberum servitium; servitium liberum armorum.

servitium regale

[Latin "royal service"] Hist. The right of a lord of a royal manor to settle disputes, make assessments, mint money, and the like.

servitium scuti

[Latin "service of the shield"] Hist. Knight service.

servitium socae

[Latin "service of the plow"] Hist. Socage.

villanum servitium

, n. [Latin] Hist. See VILLEINAGE (1).