Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Hanging
n. The act of carrying out an execution by suspending the person above the ground by a rope around the person's neck. ( Death is caused by asphyxiation (by being hoisted from the ground) or by a sudden breaking of the cervical vertebrae (by being dropped from a height).
changing fund
See FUND (1:
hanging in chains.
Hist. In England, in atrocious cases, the practice of suspending an executed murderer's body by chains near where the crime was committed. ( Hanging in chains was abolished in 1834.
hanging judge
A judge who is harsh with defendants, esp. those accused of capital crimes, and sometimes corruptly so
hanging judge.
See JUDGE.