Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Bailment for hire
a bailment for which the bailee is compensated, as when one leaves a car with a parking attendant. - also termed lucrative bailment.
Hire
ub. 1. To engage the labor or services of another for wages or other payment. 2. To procure the temporary use of property, usu. at a set price. 3. To grant the temporary use of services <hire themselves out>.
Hireling
n. a person who is hired or serves for wages, esp. one who works only for the sake of payments. hire-purchase agreement. See LEASE-PURCHASE AGREEMENT.
Shire
A county in Great Britain (esp. England), originally made up of many hundreds but later consisting of larger divisions set off by metes and bounds.
hired gun. Slang
1. An expert witness who testifies favorably for the party paying his or her fee, often because of that financial relationship rather than because of the facts. 2. A lawyer who stops at nothing to accomplish the client's goals, regardless of moral consequences.
shire-reeve
See REEVE.
shire-reeve.
The reeve of a shire. ( The shire-reeve was a forerunner of the sheriff. -Also spelled shire-reve. - Also termed shiregerefa.
work for hire
Copyright. A copyrightable work produced either by an employee within the scope of employment or by an independent contractor under a written agreement; esp., a work specially ordered or commissioned for use as (1) a contribution to a collective work, (2) a translation, (3) a supplementary work, (4) a part of a movie or other audiovisual work, (5) a compilation, (6) an instructional text, (7) a test, ' r ) answer material for a test, or (9) an atlas. ( If the work is produced by an independent contractor, the parties must agree expressly in writing that the work will be a work for hire. The employer or commissioning party owns the copyright. - Also termed work made for hire.
work made for hire
See WORK F0R HIRE