Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Instant
adj. This; the present (case, judgment, order, etc.); now being discussed <the instant order is not appealable>.
Lex necessitatis est lex temporis, i.e., instantis
The law of necessity is the law of time, i.e., time present.
ad instantiam parties
adu. [Law Latin] At the instance of a party.
eo instante
[Latin] At that very instant.
instant case
See case at bar under CASE.
instantaneous crime
A crime that is fully completed by a single act, as arson or murder, rather than a series of acts. ( The statute of limitations for an instantaneous crime begins to run with its completion.
instantaneous death
Death occurring in an instant or within an extremely short time after an injury or seizure. ( It is a factor in determining an award of damages for the victim's pain and suffering. - Sometimes also termed immediate dearth. "Although the possibility of a death that is truly simultaneous with the injury that caused it has been pointed out that death may be so contemporaneous with the fatal injury as to be instantaneous in the sense that there could be no recovery for the victim's pain and suffering. Ordinarily, death is not regarded a, instantaneous if an appreciable length of time elapsed between the injury and the death. Indeed, even where the injury causing the death is necessarily fatal and death results therefrom in a few moments, it has been held that although it would commonly be called an instantaneous death, still if the injured person survive.; the injury for a brief period, it may not be said that the death is instantaneous . . . . In such case it is immaterial that the period of time between the injury and death is short." 22A Am. Jur. 2d Death ยง 43, at 158 (1988)
instanter
adu. Instantly; at once <the defendant was ordered to file its motion instanter>.