Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
expert-witness fee
A fee paid for the professional services of an expert witness.
witness fee
1. A statutory fee that must be tendered with a subpoena for the subpoena to be binding. 2. A fee paid by a party to a witness as reimbursement for reasonable expenses (such as travel, meals, lodging, and loss of time) incurred as a result of the witness's having to attend trial and testify. ( Any other payment to a witness is considered unethical. 2. An inheritable interest in land, constituting maximal legal ownership; esp., a fee simple absolute. - Also termed fee estate; feod; feodum;feud; feudum; fief. See FEE SIMPLE. "To enfeoff someone was to transfer to him an interest in land called a fief - or, if you prefer, a feoff, feod, or feud. Our modern word fee, a direct lineal descendant of fief, implies the characteristic of potentially infinite duration when used to describe an interest in land today; but in the earliest part of the feudal period, a fief might have been as small as a life interest. We shall see later that feoffment was not used to transfer interests 'smaller' than life interests - e.g., so-called terms for years - but for our purposes now we may simply note that transfers of interests for life or 'larger' were accomplished by livery of seisin." Thomas F. Bergin & Paul G. Haskell, Preface to Estates in Land and Future Interests 11 (2d ed. 1984).