Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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Need

n. 1. The lack of something important; a requirement. 2. Indigence. - need, ub.

Needy

adj. 1. Needful; necessary. 2. Indigent; very poor. ( Needy implies a more permanent and less urgent condition than necessitous. See NECESSITOUS.

special-needs analysis

Criminal procedure. A balancing test used by the Supreme Court to determine whether certain searches (such as administrative, civil-based, or public-safety searches) impose unreasonably on individual rights.

standard of need

In public-assistance law, the total subsistence resources required by an individual or family unit as determined by a state and, when unsatisfied by available resources, entitles the individual or family unit to public assistance.