Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Detention
n. 1. The act or fact of holding a person in custody; confinement or compulsory delay. - detain, vb.
Furtum non est ubi initium habet detentionis per dominium rei
There is not theft where the holder has a beginning of detention (began holding the object) through ownership of the thing.
conversion by detention
Conversion by detaining a chattel in a way that is adverse to the owner or other lawful possessor. ( Merely to possess a chattel without title is not conversion. The defendant must have shown an intention to keep it in defiance of the plaintiff.
damages for detention
See noncontract demurrage under DEMURRAGE.
detention hearing
A hearing held by a juvenile court to determine whether a juvenile accused of delinquent conduct should be detained, continued in confinement, or released pending an adjudicatory hearing. Cf. adjudicatory hearing; disposition hearing.
detention in a reformatory
A juvenile offender's sentence of being sent to a reformatory school for some period.
investigative detention.
The holding of a suspect without formal arrest during the investigation of the suspect's participation in a crime. ( Detention of this kind is constitutional only if probable cause exists.
pretrial detention
See DETENTION.
pretrial detention.
The holding of a defendant before trial on criminal charges either because the established bail could not be posted or because release was denied. - Also termed temporary detention.
preventive detention
Confinement imposed usu. on a criminal defendant who has threatened to escape or has otherwise violated the law while awaiting trial, or on a mentally ill person who may cause harm. 2. An employee's custody of the employer's property without being considered as having legal possession of it.
temporary detention
See pretrial detention under DETENTION.