Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Neighbor
n. 1. A person who lives near another <Jensen's neighbor spotted the fire>. 2. A person or thing situated near something <Canada is the United States' neighbor to the north>. 3. A person in relation to humankind < love thy neighbor>.
Neighborhood
1. The immediate vicinity; the area near or next to a specified place. 2. People living in a particular vicinity, usu. forming a community within a larger group and having similar economic statuses and social interests. 3. The condition of being close together.
neighbor principle
The doctrine that one must take reasonable care to avoid acts or omissions that one can reasonably foresee will be likely to injure one's neighbor. 0 According to this principle, neighbor includes all persons who are so closely and directly affected by the act that the actor should reasonably think of them when engaging in the act or omission in question.
neighborhood effect
See EXTERNALITY.
neighboring rights
Copyright. The intellectual-property rights of performers, producers of sound recordings, and broadcasters. ( Each of these right-holders creates something deserving of copyright protection, but these rights are less central to copyright law than such highly creative productions as novels and sculptures.