Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Bookmaker
A person who determines odds and receives bets on the outcome of events, esp. sports events. See BOOKMAKING.
Comaker
One who participates jointly in borrowing money on a promissory note; esp., one who acts as surety under a note if the maker defaults. - Also termed cosigner. Cf MAKER.
Lawmaker
See LEGISLATOR.
Maker
1 One who frames, promulgates, or ordains (as in lawmaker). 2. A person who signs a promissory note. See NOTE (1). Cf. COMAKER. 3. DRAWER.
Rainmaker
n. A lawyer who generates a large amount of business for a law firm, usu. through wide contacts within the business community <the law firm fell on hard times when the rainmaker left and took his clients with him>. - rainmaking, n.
accommodation maker
One who signs a note as a surety. See ACCOMMODATION (2); accommodation indorser under INDORSER.
market-maker
Securities. One who helps e~-tablish a market for securities by reporting bidand-asked quotations. ( A market-maker is typically a specialist permitted to act as a dealer, ~t dealer acting in the capacity of block positioner. or a dealer who, with respect to a security, routinely enters quotations in an interdealer communication system or otherwise and is willing to buy and sell securities for the dealer's own account.
prime maker
See MAKER.