Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Intervention
n. 1. The entry into a lawsuit by a third party who, despite not being named a party to the action, has a personal stake in the outcome. ( The intervenor sometimes joins the plaintiff in claiming what is sought, sometimes joins the defendant in resisting what is sought, and sometimes takes a position adverse to both the plaintiff and the defendant. Cf IMPLEADER; INTERPLEADER. 2. The legal procedure by which such a third party is allowed to become a party to the litigation. 3. Int'l law. One nation's interference by force, or threat of force, in another nation's internal affairs or in questions arising between other nations. - intervene, ub
Nonintervention
Int'Z law. The principle that a country should not interfere in the internal affairs of another country. ( The U.N. Charter binds it from intervening "in matters which are essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of any state ...." U.N. Charter art. 2(7). -Also termed principle of nonintervention.
humanitarian intervention.
An intervention by the international community to curb abuses of human rights within a country, even if the intervention infringes the country's sovereignty.
intervention duty
Maritime law. A shipowner's obligation to remedy hazardous working conditions for longshore workers, even though the shipowner did not create the condition, when the shipowner knows of a nonobvious condition arising in an area that cannot be avoided by the longshore workers in performing their duties. Cf. ACTIVE-OPERATIONS DUTY; TURNOVER DUTY.
nonintervention executor
See independent executor.
nonintervention will.
A will that authorizes the executor to settle and distribute the estate without court supervision.
pretrial intervention
1 DIVERSION PROGRAM. 2. See deferred judgment under JUDGMENT.
principle of nonintervention
See NONINTERVENTION.