Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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

Engagement

n. 1. A contract or agreement involving mutual promises. 2. An agreement to marry; the period after which a couple has agreed to marry but before they do so.

engagement slip

A note sent by a lawyer to a court informing the court that the lawyer is professionally engaged in a second court on a given day and thus cannot appear before the first court on that day as scheduled. ( The term is used in Pennsylvania.

honorable-engagement clause. Reinsurance

An arbitration provision in a reinsurance contract allowing the arbitrators to view the reinsurance arrangement reasonably - in line with the agreement's general purposes - rather than strictly according to the rules of law or an overly technical interpretation of contract language.