Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Bench legislation
see judge-made law (2).
Legislation
1 The process of making or enacting a positive law in written form, according to some type of formal procedure, by a branch of government constituted to perform this process. - Also termed lawmaking; statute-making. 2. The law so enacted. 3. The whole body of enacted laws.
ancillary legislation
Legislation that is auxiliary to principal legislation.
antideficiency legislation
1 Legislation enacted to provide revenue to cover a budget deficiency. 2. Legislation enacted to limit the rights of secured creditors to recover in excess of the security.
class legislation
See local and special legislation.
general legislation
Legislation that applies to the community at large.
international legislation
Int'l law. 1. Lawmaking among countries or intergovernmental organizations, displaying structural and procedural characteristics that are the same as national legislation. 2. The product of any concerted effort to change international law by statute. 3. The process of trying to change international law by statute. 4. Loosely, the making of customary international law by a majority with the effect that a dissenter either is bound by the revised text or ceases to be a party to it. 5. Loosely, the adoption by international bodies of binding decisions, other than judicial and arbitral decisions, concerning specific situations or disputes.
judicial legislation
See JUDGE-MADE LAW (2) LEGISLATION.
local and special legislation
Legislation that affects only a specific geographic area or a particular class of persons. ( Such legislation is unconstitutional if it arbitrarily or capriciously distinguishes between members of the same class. - Also termed class legislation.
pork-barrel legislation
Legislation that favors a particular local district by allocating funds or resources to projects (such as constructing a highway or a post office) of economic value to the district and of political advantage to the district's legislator.
quality-of-products legislation
See LEMON LAW (2).
science of legislation
See LAW REFORM.
subordinate legislation
1 Legislation that derives from any authority other than the sovereign power in a state and that therefore depends for its continued existence and validity on some superior or supreme authority. 2. REGULATION (2).
supreme legislation
Legislation that derives directly from the supreme or sovereign power in a state and is therefore incapable of being repealed, annulled, or controlled by any other legislative authority. 4. A proposed law being considered by a legislature <gun-control legislation was debated in the House>. 5. The field of study concentrating on statutes.