Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Domboc
See DOME BOOK.
Doombook
See DOME BOOK.
Formbook
A book that contains sample legal documents, esp. transaction-related documents such as contracts, deeds, leases, wills, trusts, and securities disclosure documents.
MBO
See management buyout under BUYOUT
Nomina sunt symbola rerum
Names are the symbols of things.
Rambo lawyer
A lawyer, esp. a litigator, who uses aggressive, unethical, or illegal tactics in representing a client and who lacks courtesy and professionalism in dealing with other lawyers. - Often shortened to Rambo.
Symbolaeography
The art of drafting legal instruments.
jumbo certificate
A certificate of deposit of $100,000 or more. - Also termed jumbo. jumbo mortgage See MORTGAGE.
jumbo mortgage
A mortgage loan in a principal amount that exceeds the dollar limits for a government guarantee.
limbo time
The period when an employee is neither on duty nor off duty, as a railroad worker awaiting transportation from a duty assignment to the place of final release. 49 USCA ยง 21103(b)(4); Brotherhood of Locomo- tive Eng'rs v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R.R., 516 U.S. 152, 116 S.Ct. 595 (1996).
symbolic delivery
The constructive delivery of the subject matter of a sale by the actual delivery of an article that represents the item, that renders access to it possible, or that provides evidence of the purchaser's title to it, such as the key to a warehouse or a bill of lading for goods on shipboard.
symbolic speech
Conduct that expresses opinions or thoughts, such as a hunger strike or the wearing of a black armband. ( Symbolic speech does not enjoy the same constitutional protection that pure speech does. -Also termed speech plus. Cf. pure speech. 2. English law. An opinion delivered by a Law Lord; JUDGMENT (2).
symbolic, adj
consisting of a symbol or mark. Cf ONOMASTIC (2); HOLOGRAPH.
symbolum animae
[Latin] Hist. A mortuary. See MORTUARY (2).