Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Dominion
1. Control; possession <dominion over the car>. 2. Sovereignty < dominion over the nation>. 3. FOREIGN DOMINION.
adverse dominion
the doctrine that tolls the limitations period for claims against wrongdoing directors and officers of a corporation while they are in control of the corporation. 0 the purpose of this doctrine is to prevent a director or officer from successfully hiding wrongful or fraudulent conduct during the limitations period. fdic u. shrader & york, 991 f.2d 216, 227 (5th cir. 1993).
foreign dominion
Hist. A country that at one time was a foreign state but that by conquest or cession has come under the British Crown.