Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Mandatory
adj. Of, relating to, or constituting a command; required; preemptory. mandatory injunctionSee INJUNCTION.
mandatory injunction.
An injunction that orders an affirmative act or mandates a specified course of conduct. - Also termed affirmative injunction. Cf. prohibitory injunction.
mandatory instruction
An instruction requiring a jury to find for one party and against the other if the jury determines that, based on a preponderance of the evidence, a given set of facts exists. - Also termed binding instruction.
mandatory joinder
See compulsory joinder under JOINDER.
mandatory joinder.
See compulsory joinder.
mandatory penalty
See mandatory sentence under SENTENCE.
mandatory presumption
See conclusive presumption.
mandatory punishment
See mandatory sentence under SENTENCE.
mandatory sentence
A sentence set by law with no discretion for the judge to individualize punishment. - Also termed mandatory penalty; mandatory punishment; fixed sentence.
mandatory statute
A law that requires a course of action as opposed to merely permitting it. Cf. directory statute.
mandatory subject of bargaining
Labor law. A topic that is required by the National Labor Relations Act to be discussed in good faith by the parties during labor negotiations; an essential employment matter, including wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment, about which management and the union are required to negotiate in good faith, and that can lawfully form the basis of a collective-bargaining impasse. 29 USCA ยง 158(d). -Often shortened to mandatory subject. Cf. PERMISSIVE SUBJECT OF BARGAINING.