Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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

OTC

market. abbr. OVER-THE-COUNTER MARKET.

Scotch marriage

A marriage by consensual contract, without the necessity of a formal ceremony, so called because this kind of marriage was until 1940 recognized as valid under Scots law.

Scotch verdict

See NOT PROVEN

hotchpot

n. 1. The blending of items of property to secure equality of division, esp. as practiced in cases in which advancements of an intestate's property must be made up to the estate by a contribution or by an accounting. - Also termed hotchpotch; hodgepodge. 2. In community-property states, the property that falls within the community estate. hot court. See COURT, hot document. See DOCUMENT.