Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Give
ub. 1. To voluntarily transfer (property) to another without compensation <Jack gave his daughter a car on her birthday>. 2. To confer by a formal act <the First Amendment gives all citizens the right to free speech>. 3. To present for another to consider <the witness gave compelling testimony before the jury>. 4. (Of a jury) to impose or award by verdict <the jury gave the defendant the death penalty> <the jury gave the plaintiff $1,000 in damages>.
Lawgiver
1 A legislator, esp. one who promulgates an entire code of laws. 2. A judge with the power to interpret law. - lawgiving, adj. & n. "John Chipman Gray in his The Nature and Sources of the Law (1921) repeats a number of times a quotation from Bishop Hoadley [1676-1761]: 'Whoever hath an absolute authority to interpret any written or spoken laws, it is he who is truly the Law-giver to all intents and purposes, and not the person who first wrote or spoke them.'" Lon L. Fuller, Anatomy of the Law 23-24 (1968).
accredit (a-kred-it), vb. 1. To give official authorization or status to. 2. To recognize (a school) as having sufficient academic standards to qualify graduates for higher education or for profession
arresting the suspect. ( Such testimony may be given when an arrest has been made without probable cause, as when illegal substances have been found through an improper search. expert testimony
See expert evidence under EVIDENCE.
bribe-giver
See BRIBER.
give bail
ub. To post security for one's appearance in court <the court ordered the accused to give bail in the amount of $10,000>. - Also termed post bail.
give color
ub. Hist. To admit, either expressly or impliedly by silence, an apparent right in an opponent's allegations. 0 In common-law pleading, a defendant's plea of confession and avoidance had to give color to the plaintiffs allegations in the complaint or the plea would be fatally defective. See COLOR (2).
power given as security
See power coupled with an interest under POWER.
union givebacks
See CONCESSION BARGAINING.