Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Court of Shepway
Hist. The Court of the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, exercising civil jurisdiction. ( The civil jurisdiction of the Cinque Ports was abolished in 1855.
Layaway
An agreement between a retail seller and a consumer to hold goods for future sale. ( The seller sets the goods aside and agrees to sell them to the consumer at an agreed price in the future. The consumer deposits with the seller some portion of the price of the goods, and may agree to other conditions with the seller, such as progress payments. The consumer receives the goods once the full purchase price has been paid. lay corporation See CORPORATION.
Midway
See THALWEG.
Railway Labor Act
A 1926 federal law giving transportation employees the right to organize without management interference and establishing guidelines for the resolution of labor disputes in the transportation industry. ( In 1934, the law was amended to include the airline industry and to establish the National Mediation Board. 45 USCA §§ 151-188. See NATIONAL MEDIATION BOARD.
Stateway
n. A governmental policy or law. ( This term is formed on the analogy of folkway.
Stowaway
A person who hides on board an outgoing or incoming vessel or aircraft to obtain free passage. 18 USCA § 2199.
Tideway
Land between high- and low-water marks.
Waybill
. See BILL OF LADING.
Waynagium
See WAINAGE.
carrying away
See ASPORTATION.
commissioner of highways
A public officer responsible for overseeing the construction, alteration, and repair of highways.
common highway
See HIGHWAY.
common highway.
A highway for use by the public for any purpose of transit or traffic.
disturbance of ways.
An impediment to a person's lawful right-of-way, as by an obstruction.
halfway house.
A transitional housing facility designed to rehabilitate people who have recently left a prison or medical-care facility, or who otherwise need help in adjusting to a normal life. - Also termed residential community treatment center. half-year. See YEAR.
highway act.
One of a body of statutes governing the laying out, construction, repair, and use of highways. - Also termed highway law.
highway rate.
Hist. In England, a tax for the maintenance and repair of highways. highway robbery. See ROBBERY.
highway robbery
1. Robbery committed against a traveler on or near a public highway. 2. Figuratively, a price or fee that is unreasonably high; excessive profit or advantage.
highway tax
A tax raised to pay for the construction, repair, and maintenance of highways.
highway tax.
See TAX.
highway.
1. Broadly, any main route on land, on water, or in the air. 2. A free and public roadway or street that every person may use. 3. The main public road connecting towns or cities. 4. The entire width between boundaries of every publicly maintained way when part is open to public use for purposes of vehicular traffic.
highwayman.
A highway robber; a person who robs on a public road.
necessary way
See easement by necessity under EASEMENT.
private way
See WAY.
public highway
See HIGHWAY.
public highway.
A highway controlled and maintained by governmental authorities for general use.
right-of-way.
1. z\ person's legal right, established by usage or by contract, to pass through grounds or property owned by another. Cf. EASEMENT. 2. The right to build and operate a railway line or a highway on land belonging to another, or the land so used. 3. The right to take precedence in traffic.
take away
ub. Hist. To entice or persuade (a female under the age of 18) to leave her family for purposes of marriage, prostitution, or illicit sex. See ABDt'CTION (2).
three-mile limit, but bays and gulfs are not always recognized as state property. territorial sea
See territorial waters under WATER.
triable either way
English law.(of an offense ) prosecutable either in the Crown Co. or in a magistrates' court. "The criminal courts in England and Wales are 1i . magistrates' courts and the Crown Court. Those offer considered least serious are summary offences, tri:: only in the magistrates' courts. Those offences considered most serious are triable only on indictment, in Crown Court. A large number of offences, such as theft and most burglaries, are 'triable either way,' in a magistrates court or the Crown Court. For these offences the defendant can elect to be tried at the Crown Court, where there is a judge and jury. If the defendant does not wish a Crown Court trial, the magistrates may decide (having heard representations from the prosecutor) that the case is so serious that it should be committed to the Crown Court for trial." Andrew Ashworth, Principles of Criminal Law 16 (1991).
way
A passage or path A right to travel over another property See right-of-way
way of necessity
See implied easement under EASEMENT.
way-going crop
A grain crop, formerly sown by a tenant during a tenancy (esp. in Pennsylva-nia), that did not ripen until after expiration of the lease. ( In the absence of an express agreement to the contrary, the tenant was entitled o the crop.
way-leave
n. 1. A right-of-way (usu. created by an express grant) over or through land for the i ransportation of minerals from a mine or quarry. 2. The royalty paid for such a right.
ways-and-means committee
A legislative committee that determines how money will be raised for various governmental purposes.