Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Irregular
adj. Not in accordance with law, method, or usage; not regular.
Irregularity
Something irregular; esp., an act or practice that varies from the normal conduct of an action. 2. Eccles. law. An impediment to clerical office.
irregular endorsement.
An indorsement by a person who signs outside the chain of title and who therefore is neither a holder nor a transferor of the instrument. ( An irregular indorser is generally treated as an accommodation party. See ACCOMMODATION PARTY. -Also termed anomalous indorsement; full endorsement.
irregular indorsement
See INDORSEMENT.
irregular judgment
A judgment that may be set aside because of some irregularity in the way it was rendered, such as a clerk's failure to send a defendant notice that a default judgment has been rendered.
irregular process
A process not issued in accordance with prescribed practice. ( Whether the process is void or merely voidable depends on the type of irregularity. Cf. regular process.
irregular succession
Succession by special laws favoring certain persons or the state, rather than heirs (such as testamentary heirs) under the ordinary laws of descent.