Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.

Denomination

1. An act of naming. 2. A collective designation, esp. of a religious sect.

Nomination

1. The act of proposing a person for election or appointment. 2. The act of naming or designating a person for a position.

nomination paper

(usu. pl.) A document filed by an independent political group - usu. one not qualifying as a political party or able to hold primary elections - to place one or more nominees on a general-election ballot.

nomination to a living

Eccles. law. A right to offer a clerk to the owner of an advowson for presentation to the bishop of the diocese. ( The owner of an advowson can grant the right to another but is then bound to present whomever the grantee chooses.