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Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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

Fructus perceptos villae non esse constat

It is agreed that gathered fruits are not a part of the farm.

Grenville Act.

Hist. A statute that transferred jurisdiction of parliamentary election petitions from the whole House of Commons to select committees. ( The Act was passed in 1770 and repealed in 1828.

Village

1. Traditionally, a modest assemblage of houses and buildings for dwellings and businesses. 2. In some states, a municipal corporation with a smaller population than a city. -Also termed (in sense 2) town; borough.

nomina villarum

n. [Latin "names of the villages"] Hist. In the reign of Edward II, a list compiled by sheriffs of the names of the villages and possessors in their respective counties.

praefectus villae

n. [Latin] Hist. The mayor of a town. praeine. See PRIMER FINE.

praepositus villae

n. [Latin] Hist. A constable of a town; a petty constable.

privileged villeinage

See VILLEINAGE,

pure villeinage

Villeinage in which the services were not certain, but the tenant was obliged to do whatever he was commanded whenever the command came.

venville

, n. Hist. A tenure peculiar to the area of Dartmoor forest in Devonshire, whereby tenants have certain rights in the forest.

vill

(vil). Hist. 1. A part into which a hundred or wapentake was divided. 2. A town or village.

villanis regis subtractis reducendis

, n. [Latin "for returning the king's villeins who have been removed"] Hist. A writ that lay for the bringing back of the king's bondmen who had been carried away by others out of his manors, where they belonged.

villanum servitium

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

villein

Hist. A person entirely subject to a lord or attached to a manor, but free in relation to all others; a serf. ( At the time of the Domesday Inquest (shortly after the Norman Conquest), about 40% of households were marked as belonging to villeins: they were the most numerous element in the English population. CC FREEMAN.

villein in gross

See VILLEIN,

villein regardant

. A villein annexed to the manor of land.

villein service

Hist. A base service that a yillein performed, such as working on the lord's farm on certain days of the week (usu. two to four). 0 These services were not considered suitable to a man of free and honorable rank. - Also termed villein servitium. See WEEK-WORK.

villein socage

Socage in which the services, though certain, were of a baser nature than those provided under free socage.

villeinage

. Hist. 1. The holding of property through servitude to a feudal lord; a servile type of tenure in which a tenant was obliged to render to a lord base services. Cf. KNIGHTnSERVICE; SOCAGE. 2. A villein's status, condition, or service. - Also spelled villenage; villainage; villanage. "At the lower level the services were not always defined. The duties of the peasant were chiefly agricultural. If they were unfixed, so that the lord might in theory demand all manner of work, the tenure was 'unfree' and was called villeinage." J.H. Baker, An Introduction to English Legal History 260 (3d ed. 1990).

villenous judgment

Hist. A judgment that deprived a person of his libera lex, as a result of which he was discredited and disabled as a juror and witness, forfeited his goods and chattels and land, had his houses razed and trees uprooted, and went to prison. - Also spelled villainous judgment.