Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Chinese Wall
See ETHICAL WALL
Hine
(hln), n. Hist. In England, a husbandry servant. - Also spelled hind.
Machine
Patents. A device or apparatus consisting of fixed and moving parts that work together to perform some function. ( Machines are one of the statutory categories of inventions that can be patented. Cf. MANUFACTURE; PROCESS (3).
Moonshine
Slang. A distilled alcoholic bever, age, esp. whiskey, that is illegally manufac. tured.
crashworthiness doctrine
Products liability. The principle that the manufacturer of a product will be held strictly liable for injuries occurring in a collision, even if the collision results from an independent cause, to the extent that a defect in the product causes injuries above and beyond those that would have occurred in the collision itself. - Also termed second-collision doctrine; second-impact doctrine.
hinefare
n. Hist. In England, the loss or departure of a servant from the master.
hinegeld
n. Hist. A ransom for an offense committed by a servant.
rhadamanthine
adj. (often cap.) (Of a judge) rigorous and inflexible <the judge's rhadamanthine interpretation of procedural requirements makes it essential to study the local rules before appearing in court>.
sunshine committee
An official or quasi-official committee whose proceedings and work are open to public access.
sunshine law
A statute requiring a governmental department or agency to open its meetings or its records to public access. - Also termed open-meeting law; public-meeting law; opendoor law.