Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Lawful arrest
the taking of a person into legal custody either under a valid warrant or on probable cause that the person has committed a crime.
lawful arrest
See ARREST,
resisting unlawful arrest
The act of opposing a police officer who is making an unlawful arrest. ( Most jurisdictions have accepted the Model Penal Code position prohibiting the use of force to resist an unlawful arrest when the person arrested knows that a police officer is making the arrest. But some jurisdictions allow an arrestee to use nondeadly force to prevent the arrest.