Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Neutral
adj. 1. Indifferent. 2. (Of a judge, mediator, arbitrator, or actor in international law) refraining from taking sides in a dispute.
Neutrality
n. The condition of a nation that in time of war takes no part in the dispute but continues peaceful dealings with the belligerents.
Neutralization
1. The act of making something ineffective. 2. The process by which a country's integrity has been permanently guaranteed by international treaty, conditionally on its maintaining a perpetual neutrality except in its own defense. ( Switzerland is the only remaining example, having been neutralized by the Treaty of Vienna in 1815 - a provision reaffirmed by the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. 3. The act of declaring certain persons or property neutral and safe from capture. See NEUTRAL PROPERTY. 4. Evidence. The cancellation of unexpected harmful testimony from a witness by showing, usu. by cross-examination, that the witness has made conflicting statements. ( For example, a prosecutor may attempt to neutralize testimony of a state witness who offers unexpected adverse testimony. See IMPEACHMENT.
armed neutrality
A condition of neutrality that the neutral state is willing to maintain by military force.
hot-cargo agreement. Labor law. A voluntary agreement between a union and a neutral employer by which the latter agrees to exert pressure on another employer with whom the union has a dispute, as by c
See LANDRUM-GRIFFIN ACT.
neutral principles
Constitutional law. Rules grounded in law, as opposed to rules based on personal interests or beliefs. ( In this context, the phrase was popularized by Herbert Wechsler. See Toward Neutral Principles of Constitutional Law, 73 Harv. L. Rev. 1 (1959).
neutral property
Things belonging to citizens of a country that is not a party to a war, as long as the things are properly used and labeled. ( For example, harmless neutral property aboard a captured belligerent ship would not normally be subject to seizure. But the hiding of explosives in otherwise neutral property could allow the property to be seized as contraband.
neutrality law
Int'l law. An act that prohibits a nation from militarily aiding either of two or more belligerent powers with which the nation is at peace; esp., a federal statute forbidding acts - such as the equipping of armed vessels or the enlisting of troops - designed to assist either of two belligerents that are at peace with the United States. 22 USCA ยงยง 441-457.
neutrality proclamation
Int'l law. At the outbreak of a war between two nations, an announcement by the President that the United States is neutral and that its citizens may not violate the neutrality laws, as in the Neutrality Proclamation of 1793, issued during the war between France and Great Britain.