Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Licitation
1. The offering for sale or bidding for purchase at an auction; esp.in civil law, an auction held to partition property held in common. 2. CANT.
Pollicitation
Contracts. The offer of a promise. "By a promise we mean an accepted offer as opposed to an offer of a promise, or, as Austin called it, a pollicitation." William R. Anson, Principles of the Law of Contract 6 (Arthur L. Corbin ed., 3d Am. ed. 1919).
Solicitation
n. 1. The act or an instance of requesting or seeking to obtain something; a request or petition <a solicitation for volunteers to handle at least one pro bono case per year>. 2. The criminal offense of urging, advising, commanding, or otherwise inciting another to commit a crime <convicted of solicitation of murder>. 0 Solicitation is an inchoate offense distinct from the solicited crime. - Also termed criminal solicitation; incitement. Cf. ATTEMPT (2). 3. An offer to pay or accept money in exchange for sex <the prostitute was charged with solicitation>. 4. An attempt or effort to gain business <the attorney's solicitations took the form of radio and television ads>. 0 The Model Rules of Professional Conduct place certain prohibitions on lawyers' direct solicitation of potential clients. 5. Securities. A request for a proxy; a request to execute, not execute, or revoke a proxy; the furnishing of a form of proxy; or any other communication to security holders under circumstances reasonably calculated to result in the procurement, withholding, or revocation of a proxy. - solicit, vb.
criminal solicitation
See SOLICITATION.
deliberate elicitation
Criminal procedure. The purposeful yet covert drawing forth of an incriminating response (usu. not during a formal interrogation) from a suspect whose Sixth Amendment right to counsel has attached but who has not waived that right. 0 Deliberate elicitation may occur, for example, when a police officer engages an arrested suspect in conversation on the way to the police station. Deliberate elicitation violates the Sixth Amendment. Massiah u. United States, 377 U.S. 201, 84 S.Ct. 1199 (1964). deliberate-indifference instruction See jEwELL INSTRUCTION.
proxy solicitation
A request that a corporate shareholder authorize another person to cast the shareholder's vote at a corporate meeting.
solicitation for bids
See INVITATION TO NEGOTIATE.
solicitation of bribe
The crime of asking or enticing another to commit bribery. 18 USCA ยง 201. See BRIBERY.