Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Fithwite
See FUTHWITE.
Lecherwite
See LAIRWITE.
Witepenny
Hist. In early English law, money paid in satisfaction of a wite.
bloodwite.
See EFFUSIO SANGUINIS.
bredwite
Hist. A penalty for not complying with regulations relating to the weight or quantity of bread.
fledwite
Hist. 1. A discharge from an amercement (a fine) for a fugitive who turns himself or herself in to the monarch. 2. The fine set on a fugitive as the price for obtaining freedom. 3. The right to hold court and take an amercement for the offenses of beating and striking. - Also spelled f leduite. - Also termed flighwite.
flemeswite
Hist. The privilege to possess, or the actual possession of, the goods and fines of a fleme (a fugitive).
flighwite.
See FLEDWITE,
futhwite
Hist. A fine for fighting or breaking the peace. - Also termed fithwite.
lairwite
n.'° [fr. Saxon lagan "to lie" + wite "a fine"] Hist. A fine for adultery or fornication paid to the lord of the manor; specif., a lord's privilege of receiving a fine for fornication with the lord's female villeins. -Also termed lairesite; lecherwite; legerwite; leyerwite.
wite
(wit). Hist. A penal fine exacted by the Crown or other authority for a serious crime, such as murder. - Also spelled wyte.
witenagemot
[Anglo-Saxon "a meeting of the wise"] Hist. A national assembly of noblemen, high ecclesiastics, and other great thanes of England who advised and aided the kin in the general administration of the government. ( Its composition depended on the will of the king. It passed out of existence with the Norman Conquest (1066). Although it was a precursor to the British Parliament, that was a separate growth - not a continuation of the witenagemot. - Also spelled witenagemot; wittenagemot; witanagemote.