Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Assignable, adj. That can be assigned; transferable from one person to another, so that the transferee has the same rights as the transferor had <assignable right>. Cf. Negotiable. Assignable lease
see lease.
Attachment. 1. The seizing of a person's property to secure a judgment or to be sold in satisfaction of a judgment. - also termed (in civil law) provisional seizure. Cf. Garnishment; sequestration (1)
CFC.
See controlled foreign corporation under CORPORATION.
CFP.
abbr. Certified financial planner. See FINANCIAL PLANNER.
CFR.
abbr. CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS.
CFTC
abbr. COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION.
Cf
abbr. [Latin confer] Compare.
DCF
See discounted cash flow under CASH FLOW.
dified as supplemental jurisdiction. 28 USCA ยง 1367. - Also termed pendent-claim jurisdiction. See supplemental jurisdiction. Cf. ancillary jurisdiction.
honeste uivere ([h]a-nes-tee vi-va-ree). [Latin] Roman law. To live honestly. 0 This was one of the three general precepts in which Justinian expressed the requirements of the law. Cf. ALTERUM NON LAE
See FULL-REPORTING CLAUSE (1).
judicfum capitale
[Latin] Hist. A judgment of death; a capital sentence.
sentation that the roof did not leak>. Cf. MISREPRESENTATION.
"Representation . . . may introduce terms into a contract and affect performance: or it may induce a contract and so affect the intention of one of the parties, and the formation of the contract .... At common law, .. . if a representation did not afterwards become a substantive part of the contract, its untruth (save in certain excepted cases and apart always from fraud) was immaterial. But if it did, it might be one of two things: (1) it might be regarded by the parties as a vital term going to the root of the contract (when it is usually called a 'condition'); and in this case its untruth entitles the injured party to repudiate the whole contract; or (2) it might be a term in the nature only of an independent subsidiary promise (when it is usually called a 'warranty'), which is indeed