Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Decision
n A judicial determination after consideration of the facts and the law; esp., a ruling, order, or judgment pronounced by a court when considering or disposing of a case.-decisional, adj. See JUDGMENT; OPINION.
Federal Rules Decisions
See F.R.D.
Fifty Decisions
Justinian's rulings that settled controversies and eliminated obsolete rules in the law. ( The decisions were made in preparation for Justinian's Digest. - Also termed (in Latin) Quinquaginta Decisiones.
Predecisional
adj. Of, relating to, or occurring during the time before a decision.
Quinquaginta Decisiones
See FIFTY SIGNS.
Rules of Decision Act
A federal statute (28 USCA ยง 1652) providing that a federal court, when exercising diversity jurisdiction, must apply the substantive law of the state in which the court sits. See diversity jurisdiction under JURISDICTION.
abjudge oh), n. [Law Latin] The act of depriving a person of a. thing by judicial decision.
vb. Archaic. To take away or remove (something) by judicial decision. Cf. ADJUDGE. As a result of the trial a very solemn judgment is pronounced. The land is adjudged to the one party and his heirs, and abjudged (abiudicata) from the other party and his heirs for ever." 2 Frederick Pollock & Frederic W. Maitland, The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward 163 (2d ed. 1899).abjudicatio (ab joo-di-kay-shee-
action on decision.
A legal memorandum from attorneys in the Internal Revenue Service's litigation division to the Service's Chief Counsel, containing advice on whether the Service should acquiesce, appeal, or take some other action regarding a court's decision that is unfavorable to the Service. - Abbr. AOD.
appealable decision
A decree or order that is sufficiently final to receive appellate review (such as an order granting summary judgment), or an interlocutory decree or order that is immediately appealable, usu. by statute (such as an order denying immunity to a police officer in a civil-rights suit). - Also termed reuiewable issue. See COLLATERAL-ORDER DOCTRINE.
decision on the merits
See judgment on the merits under JUDGMENT.
decisional law
See CASELAW,
final decision
See final judgment under JUDGMENT.
final-decision rule
See FINAL-JUDGMENT RULE.
interlocutory decision
See interlocutory order under ORDER (2).
landmark decision
A judicial decision tha significantly changes existing law. ( Example; are Brown v. Board of Educ., 347 U.S. 483, 7~ S.Ct. 686 (1954) (holding that segregation it public schools violates the Equal Protection Clause), and Palsgraf v. Long Island R.R., 16: N.E. 99 (ICY. 1928) (establishing that a defen dant's duty in a negligence action is limited t( plaintiffs within the apparent zone of danger -that is, plaintiffs to whom damage could be reasonably foreseen). - Also termed landmark case. Cf. LEADING CASE.
memorandum decision
See memorandum opinion under OPINION (1).
reporter of decisions
The person responsible for publishing a court's opinions. ( The reporter of decisions often has duties that include verifying citations, correcting spelling and punctuation, and suggesting minor editorial improvements before judicial opinions are released or published. - Often shortened to reporter. - Also termed court reporter.
rule of decision
A rule, statute, body of law, or prior decision that provides the basis for deciding or adjudicating a case.
sacramentum decisionis
[Latin "the oath of decision"] Civil law. The offer by one party to accept the opposing party's oath as decisive of the issues involved in a lawsuit.
slip decision
See slip opinion under OPINION (I).
statistical-decision theory
A method for determining whether a panel of potential jurors was selected from a fair cross-section of the community, by calculating the probabilities of selecting a certain number of jurors from a particular group to analyze whether it is statistically probable that the jury pool was selected by mere chance. ( This method has been criticized because a pool of potential jurors is not ordinarily selected by mere chance; potential jurors are disqualified for a number of legitimate reasons. See FAIR-CROSS-SECTION REQUIREMENT; ABSOLUTE DISPARITY; COMPARATIVE DISPARITY; DUREN TEST.
unreasonable decision
An administrative agency's decision that is so obviously wrong that there can be no difference of opinion among reasonable minds about its erroneous nature.