Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
As-applied challenge
see challenge (1).
Batson challenge
See challenge
Challenge
ub. 1. To dispute or call into question <the columnist challenged the wisdom of the court's ruling>. 2. To formally object to the legality or legal qualifications of <the defendant challenged the person's eligibility for jury duty>.
causal challenge
See challenge for cause under CHALLENGE (2).
challenge for cause
A party's challenge supported by a specified reason, such as bias or prejudice, that would disqualify that potential juror. - Also termed causal challenge; general challenge; challenge to the poll.
challenge propter affectum
A challenge because some circumstance, such as kinship with a party, renders the potential juror incompetent to serve in the particular case.
challenge propter defectum
A challenge based on a claim that the juror is incompetent to serve on any jury for reasons such as alienage, infancy, or nonresidency.
challenge propter delictum
A challenge based on a claim that the potential juror has lost citizenship rights, as by being convicted of an infamous crime. See CIVIL DEATH (1).
challenge to the array
A legal challenge to the manner in which the entire jury panel was selected, usu. for a failure to follow prescribed procedures designed to produce impartial juries. ( Such a challenge is either a principal challenge (if some defect renders the jury prima facie incompetent, as where the officer selecting venire members is related to the prosecutor or defendant) or a challenge for favor (as where the defect does not amount to grounds for a principal challenge, but there is a probability of partiality). -Also termed challenge to the jury array.
challenge to the jury array
See challenge to the array under CHALLENGE (2).
challenge to the poll
See challenge for cause.
constitutional challenge
A lawsuit claiming that a law or governmental action is unconstitutional.
facial challenge
A claim that a statute is unconstitutional on its face - that is, that it always operates unconstitutionally 2. A party's request that a judge disqualify a potential juror or an entire jury panel <,the personal-injury plaintiff used his last challenge to disqualify a neurosurgeon>. - Also termed jury challenge. causal challenge. See challenge for cause.
general challenge
See challenge for cause under CHALLENGE (2).
peremptory challenge
One of a party's limited number of challenges that need not be supported by any reason, although a party may not use such a challenge in a way that discriminates against a protected minority. -Often shortened to peremptory. - Also termed peremptory strike. See STRIKE (2).3. Military law. An objection to a member of the court serving in a court-martial case. ( A military judge can be challenged only for cause.