Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Directory
n. 1. A book containing an alphabetical list of names, addresses, and telephone numbers, esp. those of a city's or area's residents and businesses. 2. Any organization's publication containing information on its members or business, such as a legal directory. 3. Eccles. law. A church's book of directions for conducting worship. (One of the primary directories is the Directory for the Public Worship of God, prepared by the Assembly of Divines in England in 1644 to take the place of the Book of Common Prayer that had been abolished by Parliament. It was ratified by Parliament in 1645 and adopted by the Scottish Parliament and General Assembly of the Church of Scotland that same year. A directory in the Roman Catholic Church contains instructions for saying the mass and offices each day of the year. 4. A small governing body; specif, the five-member executive body that governed France from 1795-1799 during the French Revolution until it was overthrown by Napoleon and succeeded by the consulate.
Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory
A series of books, published annually, containing a roster of lawyers and law firms in most cities of the United States, corporate legal departments, government lawyers, foreign lawyers, and lawyer-support providers, as well as a digest of the laws of the states, the District of Columbia, and territories of the United States, and a digest of the laws of many foreign jurisdictions, including Canada and its provinces.
directory call
Property. In a land description, a general description of the areas in which landmarks or other calls are found. See CALL (5); LOCATIVE CALLS.
directory provision
A statutory or contractual sentence or paragraph in which a directory requirement appears.
directory requirement
An statutory or contractual instruction to act in a way that is advisable, but not absolutely essential - in contrast to a mandatory requirement. 0 A directory requirement is frequently introduced by the word should or, less frequently, shall. directory statute See STATUTE.
directory statute
A law that indicates only what should be done, with no provision for enforcement. Cf. mandatory statute.
directory trust
1. A trust that is not completely and finally settled by the instrument creating it, but only defined in its general purpose and to be carried into detail according to later specific directions. 2. See fixed trust.