Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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

Bail below

see bail to the sheriff.

Below

adv. In a lower court <as the court noted below, the defendant's confession was not tape-recorded>. Cc above.

Below-market loan

see interest-free loan under loan.

Below-the-line

adj. (of a deduction) taken after calculating adjusted gross income and before calculating taxable income. ( examples of below-the-line deductions are medical payments and local taxes. Cf. Above-the-line.

below-market loan

See interest-free loan.

court below

A trial court or intermediate appellate court from which a case is appealed. - Also termed lower court. court christian. See ecclesiastical court.