Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.

Bank for cooperatives

a bank within a system of banks established to provide a permanent source of credit to farmers' cooperatives and supervised by the farm credit administration.

Cooperative

n. 1. An organization or enterprise (as a store) owned by those who use its services. 2. A dwelling (as an apartment building) owned by its residents, to whom the apartments are leased. - Often shortened to coop; co-op.

cooperative cause

See CAUSE (1).

cooperative cause.

Archaic. A person who is contributorily or comparatively negligent.

cooperative corporation

See CORPORATION.

cooperative federalism

Distribution of power between the federal government and the states in which each recognizes the powers of the other but shares those powers to jointly engage in governmental functions.