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Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.

Inconsistent

adj. Lacking consistency; not compatible with another fact or claim <inconsistent statements>.

doctrine of preclusion of inconsistent positions

See judicial estoppel under ESTOPPEL.

inconsistent defense

A defense so contrary to another defense that the acceptance of one requires abandonment of the other. ( For example, a person accused of murder cannot claim both self-defense and the alibi of having been in a different city when the murder took place.

inconsistent presumption

See conflicting presumption under PRESUMPTION. inconsistent statement See PRIOR INCONSISTENT STATEMENT.

legally inconsistent verdict

A verdict in which the same element is found to exist and not to exist, as when a defendant is acquitted of one offense and convicted of another, when the offenses arise from the same set of facts and an element of the second offense requires proof that the first offense has been committed.

prior inconsistent statement

See PRIOR INCONSISTENT STATEMENT.