Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Bottomland
Low-lying land, often located in a river's flood plain.
Hamleta
See HAMLET.
Ml
A measure of the money supply including cash, checking accounts, and travelers' checks.
hamlet.
A small village; a part or member of a vill. ( A hamlet in a rural community might consist of no more than a store, a church, and a few residences. - Also termed hamel; hameleta; hamlets. See VILL. Cf. HAM.
harmless error
An error that does not affect a party's substantive rights or the case's outcome. ( A harmless error is not grounds for reversal. - Also termed technical error; error in vacuo.
harmless error.
See ERROR (2).
hold harmless
ub. To absolve (another party) from any responsibility for damage or other liability arising from the transaction; INDEMNIFY. - Also termed save harmless.
hold-harmless agreement.
A contract in which one party agrees to indemnify the other. -Also termed save-harmless agreement. See INDEMNITY
hold-harmless clause.
See INDEMNITY CLAUSE.
save harmless
See HOLD HARMLESS.
save-harmless agreement
See HOLD-HARMLESS AGREEMENT.
save-harmless clause
See INDEMNITY CLAUSE.
victimless crime
A crime that is considered to have no direct victim, usu. because only consenting adults are involved. ( Examples are possession of drugs, deviant sexual intercourse between consenting adults, and prostitution. - Also termed consensual crime; crime without victims "When a man's house has been robbed or lus brother murdered, he is likely to take this complaint vigorously to the police and demand action. his presence on the scene dramatizes the need for law enforcement and gives sense and purpose to the work of the police and district attorney. In contrast, the absence of a prosecuting witness surrounds crimes without victims' with an entirelv different atmosphere. Here it is the police who must assume the initiative. If they attempt to work without the aid of informers. they must resort to spying, and this spying is rendered all the more distasteful because what is spied upon is sordid and pitiable." Lon L. Fuller, Anatomy of the Law 44 (1968).