Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Misera est servitus ubi jus est vagum aut incertum
It is a miserable slavery where the law is vague or uncertain.
servitus
n. [Latin fr. servire "to serve"] Roman law. 1. Slavery; bondage. 2. A servitude; an easement. Pl. servitutes.
servitus actus
[Latin "the servitude of driving cattle"] Roman law. A type of right-of-way; a servitude entitling one to walk, ride, or drive animals over another's property.
servitus altius non tollendi
[Latin "the servitude of not building higher"] Roman law. A servitude allowing a person to prevent a neighbor from building a higher house.
servitus aquae ducendae
[Latin "the servitude of leading water"] Roman law. A servitude allowing one to bring water to property through another's land, as by a canal.
servitus aquae educendae
[Latin "the servitude of leading off water"] Roman law. A servitude entitling a person to discharge water onto another's land.
servitus aquae hauriendae
[Latin "the servitude of drawing water"] Roman law. A servitude entitling a person to draw water from another's spring or well. - Also termed servitus aquae haustus.
servitus fluminis
[Latin "the servitude of a stream of rainwater"] Roman law. A servitude consisting in the right to divert rainwater as opposed to drip (stillicidium) onto another's land.
servitus fumi immittendi
[Latin "the servitude of discharging smoke"] Roman law. A servitude allowing a person's chimney smoke to be directed over a neighbor's property.
servitus itineris
[Latin "the servitude of way"] Roman law. A servitude allowing one to walk, ride, or be carried by horse over another's property, but not to drive animals across it.
servitus luminum
[Latin "the servitude of lights"] Roman law. A servitude entitling one to receive light from a neighbor's land, as by building windows in a common wall to light a room.
servitus ne luminibus ofciatur
[Latin "the servitude not to hinder light"] Roman law. A servitude preventing someone's light from being obstructed by a neighbor's building.
servitus ne prospectui offcciatur
[Latin "the servitude not to intercept one's prospect"] Roman law. A servitude entitling someone to an unobstructed view.
servitus oneris ferendi
[Latin "the servitude of bearing weight"] Roman law. The servitude allowing a person's building to rest on a neighbor's building, wall, or pillar.
servitus pascendi
[Latin "the servitude of pasturing"] Roman law. A servitude allowing one to pasture cattle on another's land. - Also termed jus pascendi.
servitus pecoris ad aquam adpulsum
[Latin "the servitude to drive cattle to water"] Roman law. A servitude allowing one to drive cattle to water across another's land.
servitus praedii rustici
[Latin "the servitude of a country estate"] Roman law. A rural servitude; a servitude attached to land, as in servitus pecoris ad aquam adpulsam.
servitus praedii urbani
[Latin "the servitude of an urban estate"] Roman law. An urban servitude; a servitude attached to a building, as in servitus oneris ferendi.
servitus praediorum
[Latin "praedial servitude"] Roman law. A burden on one estate for the benefit of another. See servitude appurtenant under SERVITUDE (1).
servitus projiciendi
[Latin "the servitude of projecting"] Roman law. An urban servitude allowing a projection from one's building into the open space of a neighbor's property.
servitus stillicidii
[Latin "the servitude of drip"] Roman law. A servitude allowing water to drip from one's house onto the house or ground of a neighbor. Cf. AQUAE IMMITTENDAE; DRIP RIGHTS.
servitus tigni immittendi
[Latin "the servitude of letting in a beam"] Roman law. An urban servitude allowing one to insert beams into a neighbor's wall.
servitus viae
[Latin "the servitude of road way"] Roman law. The right to use a road over another's land. ( It is broader than and includes the servitus actus and servitus itineris.
viae servitus
[Latin "a servitude of way"] Roman law. A right-of-way over another's land.