Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Canvass
ub. 1. To examine in detail; scrutinize <that issue has been repeatedly canvassed by our state's courts>. 2. To solicit political support from voters or a voting district; to take stock of public opinion <the candidate is actively canvassing the Western states>. - canvass, n.
Devastation
1. An executor's squandering or mismanagement of the deceased's estate. 2. An act of destruction.
Devastaverunt
[Latin pl. of devastavit "he (or she) has wasted"] They have wasted. ( This word usu. referred to both an executor's waste of a decedent's property and the action against the executor for that waste.
Evasive
adj. Tending or seeking to evade; elusive; shifting. ( If a pleading requiring a response is evasive, the responding party may move for a more definite statement. Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(e).
Exceptio firmat regulam in vasibus non eiceptis
An exception affirms the rule in cannot excepted.
Periculosum est res novas et inusitatas inducere
It is dangerous to introduce new and unaccustomed things.
absque impetitione vasti
[Law Latin] Hist. See WITHOUT IMPEACHMENT OF WASTE.
annus, dies, et vastum
[law latin] see year, day, and waste.
arriere vassal
. Hist. The vassal of a vassal.
de vasto
n. [Law Latin "of waste"] A writ allowing a reversioner or remainderman to compel a tenant for life or for years to appear and answer for the waste and resulting damage to the plaintiff's inheritance.
devastavit
[Latin "he (or she) has wasted"] A personal representative's failure to administer a decedent's estate promptly and properly, esp. by spending extravagantly or misapplying assets. 0 A personal representative who commits waste in this way becomes personally liable to those having claims on the assets, such as creditors and beneficiaries.
evasive answer
A response that neither directly admits nor denies a question. ( In pleading, this is considered a failure to answer. Fed. R. Civ. P. 37(3).
injury in fact. An actual or imminent invasion of a legally protected interest, in contrast to an invasion
that is conjectural or hypothetical. a An injury in fact gives the victim standing to bring an action for damages.
invasion of privacy.
An unjustified exploitation of one's personality or intrusion into one's personal activity, actionable under tort law and sometimes under constitutional law. ( The four types of invasion of privacy in tort are (1) an appropriation, for one's benefit, of another's name or likeness, (2) an offensive, intentional interference with a person's seclusion or private affairs, (3) the public disclosure, of an objectionable nature, of private information about another, and (4) the use of publicity to place another in a false light in the public eye. See RIGHT OF PRIVACY.
invasion.
1. A hostile or forcible encroachment on the rights of another. 2. The incursion of an army for conquest or plunder. 3. Trusts. A withdrawal from principal. ( In the third sense, the term is used as a metaphor.
non fecit vastum contra prohibitionem
[Latin "he did not commit waste against the prohibition"] In an estrepement action, a tenant's denial of any destruction to lands after an adverse judgment but before the sheriff has delivered possession of the lands to the plaintiff.
privacy, invasion of
See INVASION OF PRIVACY.
prohibitio de vasto, directa parti
[Latin "prohibition of waste, directed to the party"] Hist. A writ issued during litigation prohibiting a tenant from committing waste.
tax evasion
The willful attempt to defeat or circumvent the tax law in order to illegally reduce one's tax liability. ( Tax evasion is punishable by both civil and criminal penalties. - Also termed tax fraud. Cf. TAX AVOIDANCE.
valvasor
n. [Law Latin] Hist. A principal vassal who, though not holding directly of the sovereign, held of those who did so; a vassal of the second degree or rank. - Also spelled
valvassor
See VAVASOR. VA
vas
, n. Civil law. A pledge or surety; esp., a surety in a judicial proceeding, whether civil or criminal. Pl. vades.
vassal
n. [Law Latin vassallus] Hist. The grantee of a fief, feud, or fee; a feudal tenant. Cf. FREEMAN.
vassal state.
Int'L law. A state that is supposed to possess only those rights and privileges that have been granted to it by a more powerful state.
vassalage
, n. Hist. 1. The state of being a vassal or feudatory. - Also termed vasseleria. 2. The service required of a vassal. - Also termed vassaticum; main-rent. 3. The territory held by a vassal; a fief or fee. 4. Vassals collectively. 5. The dominion or authority of a feudal superior over vassals. 6. Political servility; subjection.
vassallus
n. [Law Latin] Hist. A feudal tenant. Cf. vAssus.
vassaticum
. [Law Latin] See VASSALAGE (2).
vasseleria
. [Law Latin] See VASSALAGE (1).
vassus
, n. [Law Latin] Hist. A feudal tenant that held immediately of the king. Cf. VASSALLUS.
vasto.
See DE VASTO.
vastum
, n. Hist. WASTE.
vastum forestae vel bosci
Hist. Waste of a forest or wood.
vavasor
, n. [Law Latin] Hist. The vassal or tenant of a baron; one who held under a baron and also had subtenants. - Also spelled vavasour (vav-a-suur). CUVALVASOR.
vavasory
, n. [fr. Law Latin vavasoria] Hist. The lands held by a vavasor. VC. abbr. VICE-CHANCELLOR. abbr. VICE-CHANCELLOR.