Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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

Avail

n. 1. Use or advantage <of little or no avail>. 2. (pl.) Profits or proceeds, esp. From a sale of property <the avails of the trust fund>.

Avail of marriage

see valor maritagii.

Available for work

adj. (of a person) ready, willing, and able to accept temporary or permanent employment when offered.

Availment

n. The act of making use or taking advantage of something for oneself <availment of the benefits of public office>. - avail, vb.

Unavailability

n. The status or condition of not being available, as when a witness is exempted by court order from testifying. ( Unavailability is recognized under the Federal Rules of Evidence as an exclusion to the hearsay rule. Fed. R. Evid 804.

delayed funds availability

A hold that a bank places on uncollected funds that are represented by a deposited check. - Abbr. DFA.

paravail

, adj. [Law French "at the bottom"] Hist. (Of a tenant) holding of another tenant.