Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Filing

n. A particular document (such as a pleading) in the file of a court clerk or record custodian <the lawyer argued that the plaintiffs most recent filing was not germane to the issue before the court>.

charge and discharge. Equity practice. Court ordered account filings by a plaintiff and a defendant. ( The plaintiff's account (charge) and the defendant's response (discharge) were filed with a maste

filing fee

A sum of money required to be paid to the court clerk before a proceeding can start.

filing status

Tax. One of the four categories under which a person files an income tax return. ( Under federal law, the four categories are: (1) single; (2) head of household; (3) married filing a joint return; and (4) married filing separate returns.

first-filing rule

See FIRST-TO-FILE RULE.

fixture filing

The act or an instance of recording, in public real-estate records, a security interest in personal property that is intended to become a fixture. 0 The creditor files a financing statement in the real-property records of the county where a mortgage on the real estate would be filed. A fixture-filing financing statement must contain a description of the real estate.

notice filing

The perfection of a security interest under Article 9 of the UCC by filing only a financing statement, as opposed to a copy or abstract of the securitv agreement- ( The financing statement must contain (1) the debtor's signature, (2) the secured party's name and address, (3) the debtor's name and mailing address, and (4) a description of the types of, or items of, collateral.

patent issued within a year of the pending application's filing date. - interfere, ub. interference with a business relationship

See TORTIOUSINTERFERENCE WITH PROSPECTIVE ADVANTAGE.

single-filing rule

Civil-rights law. The Principle that an administrative charge filed by one plaintiff in a civil-rights suit (esp. a Title V11 suit) will satisfy the administrative-filing rquirements for all coplaintiffs who are making, claims for the same act of discrimination. ( But this rule will not usu. protect a coplaintiffs claims if the coplaintiff also filed an administrative charge, against the same employer, in which different discriminatory acts were complained of, because the administrative agency (usu. the EEOC) and the employer are entitled to rely on the allegations someone makes in a., administrative charge.