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.