Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Community
1. A neighborhood, vicinity, or locality. 2. A society or group of people with similar rights or interests. 3. A collection of common interests that arise from an association.
European Community
See EUROPEAN UNION.
European Economic Community
See EUROPEAN UNION.
community account
An account consisting of commingled and community funds. See COMMUNITY PROPERTY.
community debt
A debt that is chargeable to the community of husband and wife rather than to either individually. See COMMUNITY PROPERTY.
community lease
A lease in which a number of lessors owning interests in separate tracts execute a lease in favor of a single lessee.
community of interest
1. Participation in a joint venture characterized by shared liability and shared opportunity for profit. See JOINT VENTURE. 2. A common grievance that must be shared by all class members to maintain the class action. See CLASS ACTION. 3. Labor law. A criterion used by the National Labor Relations Board in deciding whether a group of employees should be allowed to act as a bargaining unit. ( The Board considers whether the employees have similar duties, wages, hours, benefits, skills, training, supervision, and working conditions. See BARGAINING UNIT.
community property
See COMMUNITY PROPERTY.
community trust
See COMMUNITY TRUST.
community-property state
A state in which spouses hold property that is acquired during marriage (other than property acquired by inheritance or individual gift) as community property. See COMMUNITY PROPERTY. Cf. COMMON-LAW STATE.
contemporary community standard
The gauge by which a fact-finder decides whether material is obscene, judging by its patent offensiveness and its pruriency in the locale at a given time. See OBSCENITY (1).
international legal community
1. The collective body of countries whose mutual legal relations are based on sovereign equality. 2. More broadly, all organized entities having the capacity to take part in international legal relations. 3. An integrated organization on which a group of countries, by international treaty, confer part of their powers for amalgamated enterprise. ( In this sense, the European Community is a prime example.
residential community treatment center
See HALFWAY HOUSE.