Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
capias in withernam
[Law Latin "taking again"] A writ authorizing the sheriff to seize the goods or cattle of a wrongful distrainor. See wITHERNAM.
de averiis captis in withernamium
n. [Law Latin "for taking cattle in withernam"] Hist. A writ directing a sheriff to detain a defendant's cattle because the defendant had unlawfully taken the plaintiff's cattle out of the county. 0 The defendant's cattle would be detained until the sheriff could replevy the plaintiff's cattle.
de executione facienda in withernamium
n. [Law Latin "for mak ing execution in withernam"] Hist. A writ of execution in withernam. ( This is a type of capis in withernam directing the sheriff to takefrom the defendant goods equal in value to the goods that the defendant took from the plain tiff.
de homine capto in withernamium
[Law Latin "for taking a man in withernam"] Hist. A writ to seize and jail a person who took a bondman out of the county to keep the bond man from being replevied. ( The defendant was jailed without bail until the bondman was re turned. See WITIIERNAM.
executione facienda in withernamium
[Latin] Hist. A writ that lay for taking cattle of a person who had taken someone else's cattle out of the county so that the sheriff could not replevy them.
homine capto in withernamium
[Law Latin "for taking a man in withernam"] Hist. A writ for the arrest of a person who had taken a bondman out of the country to prevent a replevy. See WITHERNAM.
withernam
, n. [fr. Saxon weder "other" + naam "a taking"] Hist. A reciprocal taking or distress in place of a previous one. See CAPIAS IN WITHERNAM.