Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
C'est le crime qui fait la honte, et non pas mchafaud
It is the crime that causes the shame, and not the scaffold.
FBLMC
abbr. FEDERAL HOME LOAN MORTGAGE
FMC.
abbr. FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION.
FMCS.
abbr. FEDERAL MEDIATION AND CONCILIATION SERVICE.
MC
abbr. MEMBER OF CONGRESS,
McCarran Act
A federal law requiring, among other things, members of the Communist party to register with the Attorney General and requiring Communist organizations to provide the government with a list of its members. ( The Act was passed during the Cold War but was later repealed in response to a U.S. Supreme Court decision declaring portions of the Act unconstitutional. - Also termed McCarran Internal Security Act; Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950.
McCarran Internal Security Act
See MCCAR. RAN ACT.
McCarran-Ferguson Act
A federal law allowing a state to regulate insurance companies doing business in that state, and also to levy a tax on them. 15 USCA ยงยง 1011-1015.
McClanahan presumption
The presumption that the states do not have jurisdiction to tax members of a Native American tribe who live or work on tribal land. ( The presumption is not limited to tribal members who live or work on a formal reservation. Instead, it includes those who live or work on informal reservations, in dependent tribal communities, and on tribal allotments. McClanahan v. Arizona Tax Comm'n, 411 U.S. 164, 93 S.Ct. 1257 (1973).
McDonnell Douglas test
Employment law. The principle for applying a shifting burden of proof in employment-discrimination cases, essentially requiring the plaintiff to come forward with evidence of discrimination and the defendant to come forward with evidence showing that the employment action complained of was taken for nondiscriminatory reasons. ( Under this test, the plaintiff is first required to establish a prima facie case of discrimination, as by showing that the plaintiff is a member of a protected group and suffered an adverse employment action. If the plaintiff satisfies that burden, then the defendant must articulate a legitimate, nondiscriminatory reason for the employment action complained of. If the defendant satisfies that burden, then the plaintiff must prove that the defendant's stated reason is just a pretext for discrimination and that discrimination was the real reason for the employment action. McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green, 411 U.S. 792, 93 S.Ct. 1817 (1973).
McNabb-Mallory rule
Criminal procedure. The doctrine that a confession is inadmissible if obtained during an unreasonably long detention period between arrest and a preliminary hearing. ( Because of the broader protections afforded under the Miranda rule, the McNabbMallory rule is rarely applied in modern cases. - Often shortened to Mallory rule. McNabb v. United States, 318 U.S. 332, 63 S.Ct. 608 (1943); Mallory v. United States, 354 U.S. 449, 77 S.Ct. 1356 (1957).
McNaghten rules
Criminal law. The doctrine that a person is not criminally responsible for an act when a mental disability prevented the person from knowing either (1) the nature and quality of the act, or (2) whether the act was right or wrong. & The federal courts and most states have adopted this test in some form. McNaghten's Case, 8 Eng. Rep. 718 (H.L. 1843). - Also spelled McNaughten rules; M'Naghten rules; M'Naughten rules. - Also termed right-andwrong test; right-wrong test. See INSANITY DEFENSE. "Four points stand out and should be understood whenever reference to M'Naghten is made other than in regard to procedure. (1) It applies only in case of 'a defect of reason, from disease of the mind' and without this the following do not apply except that 'disease' as so used will be interpreted to include congenital defect or traumatic injury. (2) If, because of this 'defect of reason,' the defendant did not know what he was doing he is not guilty of crime. (3) Even if the defendant knew what he was doing he is not guilty of crime if, because of this 'defect of reason,' he did not know he was doing wrong. (4) If the defendant acted under an insane delusion, and was not otherwise insane, his accountability to the crimi- nal law is the same as if the facts were as they seemed to him to be." Rollin M. Perkins & Ronald N. Boyce, Criminal Law 959-60 (3d ed. 1982).