Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Citation
n. 1. A court-issued writ that mands a person to appear at a certain time: place to do something demanded in the writo show cause for not doing so. 2. A police issued order to appear before a judge on a giver date to defend against a stated charge, such as a traffic violation. 3. A reference to a legal precedent or authority, such as a case, statutes or treatise, that either substantiates or contradicts a given position. - Often shortened t(. m sense 3) cite.
Citational
adj. Of or relating to a citation ( esp, a reference citation) <citational anatlysis>.,
Citationes non concedantur priusquam exprimatur super qua re fieri debet citatio
Citations should not be granted before it is stated about what matter the citation is to be made.
Citations, Law of
Roman law. An A.D. 426 decree of Emperor Valentinian listing Papinian, Paul, Gaius, Ulpian, and Modestinus as the only juristic writers who could be cited authoritatively in court. ( If a majority of the writers agreed on an issue, the judge was bound to follow the majority view. The Law of Citations allowed the judge to use discretion only if the writers were equally divided and Papinian (whose view prevailed in a tie) was silent on the issue."In 426 came the famous lax de responsis prudentium -the Law of Citations .... This law lessened the difficulties of the courts in dealing with juristic literature. It excluded a huge mass of conflicting doctrine, the relative value of which had not been
Incapacitation
n. 1. The action of disabling or depriving of legal capacity. 2. The state of being disabled or lacking legal capacity. - incapacitate, vb.
Licitation
1. The offering for sale or bidding for purchase at an auction; esp.in civil law, an auction held to partition property held in common. 2. CANT.
Multa multo exercitatione facilius quam regulis percipies
You will perceive many things much more easily by practice than by rules.
Non concedantur citationes priusquam exprimatur super qua re fieri decet citatio
Summonses should not be granted before it is expressed upon what ground a summons should be issued.
Pollicitation
Contracts. The offer of a promise. "By a promise we mean an accepted offer as opposed to an offer of a promise, or, as Austin called it, a pollicitation." William R. Anson, Principles of the Law of Contract 6 (Arthur L. Corbin ed., 3d Am. ed. 1919).
Solicitation
n. 1. The act or an instance of requesting or seeking to obtain something; a request or petition <a solicitation for volunteers to handle at least one pro bono case per year>. 2. The criminal offense of urging, advising, commanding, or otherwise inciting another to commit a crime <convicted of solicitation of murder>. 0 Solicitation is an inchoate offense distinct from the solicited crime. - Also termed criminal solicitation; incitement. Cf. ATTEMPT (2). 3. An offer to pay or accept money in exchange for sex <the prostitute was charged with solicitation>. 4. An attempt or effort to gain business <the attorney's solicitations took the form of radio and television ads>. 0 The Model Rules of Professional Conduct place certain prohibitions on lawyers' direct solicitation of potential clients. 5. Securities. A request for a proxy; a request to execute, not execute, or revoke a proxy; the furnishing of a form of proxy; or any other communication to security holders under circumstances reasonably calculated to result in the procurement, withholding, or revocation of a proxy. - solicit, vb.
citation order
The appropriate ranking of the various authorities marshaled in support of a legal proposition.
citation signal
See SIGNAL (2).
criminal solicitation
See SOLICITATION.
deliberate elicitation
Criminal procedure. The purposeful yet covert drawing forth of an incriminating response (usu. not during a formal interrogation) from a suspect whose Sixth Amendment right to counsel has attached but who has not waived that right. 0 Deliberate elicitation may occur, for example, when a police officer engages an arrested suspect in conversation on the way to the police station. Deliberate elicitation violates the Sixth Amendment. Massiah u. United States, 377 U.S. 201, 84 S.Ct. 1199 (1964). deliberate-indifference instruction See jEwELL INSTRUCTION.
jump citation
See pinpoint citation under CITATION.
law of Citations
See CITATIONS, LAW OF.
parallel citation
An additional referent a case that has been reported in more than one reporter. ( For example, whereas a L> , -book citation reads "Morgan u. United St(:tc, 304 U.S. 1 (1938)," the same reference in cluding parallel citations reads "Morgai United States, 304 U.S. 1, 58 S.Ct. 773 ~2 L.Ed. 1129 (1938)," in which the main :r~-tion is to the U.S. Reports and the par-iul citations are to the Supreme Court Rep.-,, and to the Lawyer's Edition.
pinpoint citation
The page on which a quotation or relevant passage appears, as opposed to the page on which a case or article begins. 9 For example, the number 217 is the pinpoint citation in Baker v. Carr, 369 U.S 186, 217 (1962).-:Also termed jump citation . dictum page; pincite.
proxy solicitation
A request that a corporate shareholder authorize another person to cast the shareholder's vote at a corporate meeting.
solicitation for bids
See INVITATION TO NEGOTIATE.
solicitation of bribe
The crime of asking or enticing another to commit bribery. 18 USCA ยง 201. See BRIBERY.