Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Grand Jury Clause
The clause of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution requiring an indictment by a grand jury before a person can be tried for serious offenses.
Jury
n. A group Of persons selected according to law and given the power to decide questions of fact and return a verdict in the case submitted to them.
Nonjury
adj. Of or relating to a matter determined by a judicial officer, such as a judge, rather than a jury <the plaintiff asked for a nonjury trial>.
Perjury
n. The act or an instance of a person's deliberately making material false or misleading statements while under oath. -Also termed false swearing; false oath; (archaically) forswearing. - perjure (par jar), ub. -perjured (par jard), perjurious (par-juuree-as), adj. - perjuror (par-jar-ar), n.
accidental injury
An injury resulting from external, violent, and unanticipated causes; esp., a bodily injury caused by some external force or agency operating contrary to a person's intentions, unexpectedly, and not according to the usual order of events.
accusing jury.
See GRAND JURY,
actual-injury trigger.
Insurance. The point at which an insured suffers damage or injury (such as the time of an automobile accident), so that there is an occurrence invoking coverage under an insurance policy. - Also termed injury-in-fact trigger. Cf. EXPOSURE THEORY; MANIFESTATION THEORY; TRIPLE TRIGGER.
additional grand jury.
See special grand jury under GRAND JURY.
advisory jury
A jury empaneled to hear a case when the parties have no right to a jury trial. ( The judge may accept or reject the advisory jury's verdict.
blue-blue-ribbon jury.
See blue-ribbon jury under JURY.
blue-ribbon jury
A jury consisting of jurors who are the most highly educated on a given panel, sometimes used in a complex civil case (usu. by stipulation of the parties) and sometimes also for a grand jury (esp. those investigating governmental corruption). 0 An even more elite group of jurors, involving specialists in a technical field, is called a blue-blueribbon jury.
blue-ribbon jury.
See JURY,
bodily injury
Physical damage to a person's body. - Also termed physical injury. Cf. grievous bodily harm under HARM.
bodily injury.
See INJURY.
challenge to the jury array
See challenge to the array under CHALLENGE (2).
civil injury
See INJURY.
common jury
See petit jury.
compensable injury
Workers' compensation. An injury caused by an accident arising from the employment and in the course of the employee's work, and for which the employee is statutorily entitled to receive compensation.
continual injury
An injury that recurs at repeated intervals. - Also termed (but improperly) continuous injury.
continuing injury
See INJURY.
continuing injury.
An injury that is still in the process of being committed. ( An example is the constant smoke or noise of a factory.
continuous injury
See continual injury under INJURY.
coroner's jury
A jury summoned by a coroner to investigate the cause of death. deadlocked jury See hung jury.
date of injury
The inception date of an injury; the date of an accident causing an injury.
deadlocked jury
See hung jury under JURY.
death-qualified jury
Criminal law. A jury that is fit to decide a case involving the death penalty because the jurors have no absolute ideological bias against capital punishment. Cf. life-qualified jury.
declaration under penalty of perjury
See DECLARATION (8).
direct injury
See INJURY
extraordinary grand jury
See special grand jury under GRAND JURY. extraordinary hazard See HAZARD (1).
fair and impartial jury
See impartial jury.
federal grand jury
See GRAND JURY.
fixing a jury
See JURY-FIXING.
foreign jury
A jury obtained from a jurisdiction other than that in which the case is brought.
good jury
See special jury.
grand jury
See GRAND JURY.
grand jury witness
A witness who is called to testify in a matter under inquiry by a grand jury.
grand jury.
A body of (often 23) people who are chosen to sit permanently for at least a month - and sometimes a year - and who, in ex parte proceedings, decide whether to issue indictments. 0 If the grand jury decides that evidence is strong enough to hold a suspect for trial, it returns a bill of indictment (a true bill) charging the suspect with a specific crime. -Also termed accusing jury; presenting jury; jury of indictment. Cf. petit jury under JURY.
grand-jury witness.
See WITNESS.
great bodily injury.
See grievous bodily harm under HARM.
homage jury
Hist. A jury in a court baron, consisting of tenants who made homage to the lord. See COURT BARON.
homage jury.
See JURY.
hung jury
A jury that cannot reach a verdict by the required voting margin. - Also termed deadlocked jury.
hung jury.
See JURY.
impartial jury
A jury that has no opinion about the case at the start of the trial and that bases its verdict on competent legal evidence. - Also termed fair and impartial jury. inquest jury A jury summoned from a particular district to appear before a sheriff, coroner, or other ministerial officer and inquire about the facts concerning a death. See INQUEST.
injury
n. 1. The violation of another's legal right, for which the law provides a remedy; a wrong or injustice. See WRONG. 2. Harm or damage. - injure, vb. - injurious, adj.
injury in fact
See INJURY.
injury in fact. An actual or imminent invasion of a legally protected interest, in contrast to an invasion
that is conjectural or hypothetical. a An injury in fact gives the victim standing to bring an action for damages.
injury-in-fact trigger
See ACTUAL-INJURY TRIGGER.
inquest jury
See JURY.
intentional-injury exclusion
See expected/intended exclusion under EXCLUSION (3).