Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Continuance
n. 1. The act of keeping up, maintaining, or prolonging <continuance of the formal tradition>. 2. Duration; time of continuing <the senator's continuance in office>. 3. Procedure. The adjournment or postponement of a trial or other proceeding to a future date <motion for continuance>. -
Miscontinuance
A continuance erroneously ordered by a court.
darrein continuance
n. [fr. French dernier continuance "the last continuance"] Hist. Every plea of a new matter after the last entry of a plea on the record. 0 Every entry of a pleading after the first pleading on the record was called a continuance. - Also spelled dareyne continuance.
discontinuance
n. 1. The termination of a lawsuit by the plaintiff; a voluntary dismissal or nonsuit. See DISMISSAL; NONSUIT. 2. The termination of an estate-tail by a tenant in tail who conveys a larger estate in the land than is legally allowed.Such is . . . the injury of discontinuance; which happens when he who hath an estate-tail, maketh a larger estate of the land than by law he is entitled to do: in which case the estate is good, so far as his power extends who made it, but no farther. As i
plea puis darrein continuance
[Law French "plea since the last continuance"] A plea that alleges new defensive matter that has arisen during a continuance of the case and that did not exist at the time of the defendant's last pleading.
puis darrein continuance
[Law French "since the last continuance"] See plea puis darrein continuance under PLEA (3).
recontinuance.
1. Resumption or renewal. 2. The recovery of an incorporeal hureditament that had been wrongfully deprived.
voluntary discontinuance
See NONSUIT