Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Border

A boundary between one nation (or a political subdivision) and another.

Disorder

1. A lack of proper arrangement <disorder of the files>. 2. An irregularity <a disorder in the proceedings>. 3. A public disturbance; a riot <civil disorder>. 4. A disturbance in mental or physical health <an emotional disorder > < a liver disorder>.

Lone Pine order

A case-management order in a toxic-tort lawsuit involving many plaintiffs, establishing procedures and deadlines for discovery, including requiring the plaintiffs to timely produce evidence and expert opinions to substantiate each plaintiff's exposure to the hazardous substance, the injury suffered, and the cause of the injury. Lore v. Lone Pine Corp., No. L-33606-85 (ICJ. Super. Ct. Nov. 18, 1986). 0 Although the Lone Pine opinion is unreported, it has become famous for the kind of case-management order involved, in part because the plaintiffs' claims were dismissed for failure to timely provide expert opinions.

Mimms order.

A police officer's command for a motorist to get out of the vehicle. ( A Mimms order need not be independently justified if the initial stop was lawful. Pennsylvania v. Mimms, 434 U.S. 106, 98 S.Ct. 330 (1977).

Order

n. 1. A command, direction, or instruction. 2. A written direction or command delivered by a court or judge. - Also termed court order; judicial order."An order is the mandate or determination of the court upon some subsidiary or collateral matter arising in an action, not disposing of the merits, but adjudicating a preliminary point or directing some step in the proceedings." 1 Henry Campbell Black, A Treatise on the Law of Judgments § 1, at 5 (2d ed. 1902).

Order of the Coif

1. Formerly, the order of serjeants-at-law, the highest order of counsel at the English Bar. ( The last serjeant was appointed to the Order in 1875. 2. An honorary legal fraternity composed of a select few law students with the highest grades. See COIF.

administrative order

1. An order issued by a government agency after an adjudicatory hearing. 2. An agency regulation that interprets or applies a statutory provision.

administrative order.

See ORDER (2)

all-or-none order

An order to buy a security to be executed either in its entirety or not at all.

alternative order

see order (4).

border control

Int'l law. A country's physical manifestation of its territorial sovereignty, by which it regulates which people and goods may enter and leave. 0 As a practical matter, border controls are often used to contain plant and animal diseases, fight terrorism, and detect the movement of criminals.

border search

A search conducted by immigration or customs officials at the border of a country to detect and prevent illegal entries of people or things. ( A border search requires no warrant.

borderesu

n. 1. A description of reinsured risks; esp., a periodic report provided by a cedent to a treaty reinsurer, consisting of basic information affecting the reinsurance treaty, such as the underlying insureds, the types of risks covered, policies, and dates of loss. See REINSURANCE TREATY. 2. A detailed note of account. Pl.

borderesux

bordereau, vb.

buy order

An investor's instruction to purchase stock.

case-management order

A court order designed to control the procedure in a case on the court's docket, esp. by limiting pretrial discovery. - Abbr. CMO.

cease-and-desist order

A court's or agency's order prohibiting a person from continuing a particular course of conduct. See INJUNCTION; RESTRAINING ORDER.

change order

A directive issued by the federal government to a contractor to alter the specifications of an item the contractor is producing for the government

charge and discharge. Equity practice. Court ordered account filings by a plaintiff and a defendant. ( The plaintiff's account (charge) and the defendant's response (discharge) were filed with a maste

charging order

Partnership. A statutory procedure whereby an individual partner's creditor can satisfy its claim from the partner's interest in the partnership.

citation order

The appropriate ranking of the various authorities marshaled in support of a legal proposition.

civil disorder

A public disturbance involving three or more people who commit violent acts that cause immediate danger or injury to people or property. See RIOT.

collateral-order doctrine

A doctrine allowing appeal from an interlocutory order that conclusively determines an issue wholly separate from the merits of the action and effectively unreviewable on appeal from a final judgment. -Also termed Cohen doctrine (fr. Cohen u. Beneficial Indus. Loan Corp., 337 U.S. 541, 69 S.Ct. 1221 (19490. See appealable dccrsron under DECISION.

conge d'accorder

,. [Law French] Hist. Leave to accord. 0 Courts used this phrase in fictitious land-title lawsuits to grant the defendant permission to agree with the plaintiff's allegations. See FINE (1).

consent order

See consent decree under decree.

convening order

Military law. An instrument that creates a court-martial. ( The convening order specifies (1) the type of court-martial and its time and place, (2) the names of the members and the trial and defense counsel, (3) the name of the military judge, if one has been detailed, and (4) if necessary, the authority by which the court-martial has been created.

court order

See ORDER (2)

court recorder

See RECORDER.

court recorder.

A court official who records court activities using electronic recording equipment, usu. for the purpose of preparing a verbatim transcript. Cf. COURT REPORTER (1).

court-martial order

A written order containing the result of a court-martial trial.

day order

An order to buy or sell on one particular day only. Cf. open order.

decretal order

. A court of chancery's interlocutory order that is issued on motion of a party and has the effect of a final decree. See decree nisi under DECREE.

delayed-compliance order

Environmental law. An order issued by the Environmental Protection Agency or by a state agency to an existing source of pollutants, whereby the deadline for complying with an implementation plan is postponed. See IMPLEMENTATION PLAN.

delivery order

A written order to deliver goods, directed to a warehouseman, carrier, or other person who ordinarily issues warehouse receipts or bills of lading. UCC § 7-102(1)(d).

direct order of alienation

Real estate. The principle that a grantee who assumes the debt on a mortgaged property is required to pay the mortgage debt if the original mortgagor defaults.

discretionary order

See ORDER (4).

disorderly conduct

Behavior that tends to disturb the public peace, offend public morals, or undermine safety. See BREACH of THE PEACE.

disorderly house

1. A dwelling where people carry on activities that are a nuisance to the neighborhood. 2. A dwelling where people conduct criminal or immoral activities. * Examples are brothels and drug houses. - Also termed bawdy house; house of prostitution; house of ill fame; lewd house."The keeping of one type of disorderly house - the bawdy house - is punished because it violates the social interest in maintaining proper standards of morality and decency .... As included here a house may be disorderly for other reasons. Any house in wh

disorderly person

1. A person guilty of disorderly conduct. 2. A person who breaches the peace, order, decency, or safety of the public, as defined by statute. "Ordinarily, a person who is guilty of disorderly conduct is a 'disorderly person,' but where statutes define 'a disorderly person' and distinguish acts which may constitute the offense of disorderly conduct, the distinction is to be preserved and the different provisions relative to the different offenses particularly followed." 27 C.J.S. Disorderly Conduct § 1(1), at 509 (1959).

division order

Oil & gas. A sales contract for the purchase of oil or gas, directing the purchaser to pay for the value of the products in the proportions set out in the contract. 0 The purchaser usu. asks the lessee to provide complete abstracts of title, which the purchaser uses to obtain a title examination and a title opinion. The purchaser then prepares the division order, usu. requiring it to be executed by the operator, the royalty owners, and anyone else with an interest in production. Once the division order is executed and returned to the purchaser, payments begin for the products removed.

either-or order

See alternative order under DER (4).

ex parte order

. An order made by the court upon the application of one party to an action without notice to the other.

executive order

An order issued by or on behalf of the President, usu. intended to direct or instruct the actions of executive agencies or government officials, or to set policies for the executive branch to follow. - Abbr. ex. order

fill-or-kill order

An order that must be executed as soon as it reaches the tradingfloor. 0 If the order is not filled immediately, it is canceled.

final appealable order

See final judgment under JUDGMENT.

final order

An order that is dispositive of the entire case. See final judgment under JUDGMENT.

final-order doctrine

See FINALITY DOCTRINE.

fraternal order.

See FRATERNAL BENEFIT ASSOCIATION.

gag order

1. A judge's order directing parties, attorneys, witnesses, or journalists to refrain from publicly discussing the facts of a case. 0 When directed to the press, such an order is generally unconstitutional under the First Amendment. 2. A judge's order that an unruly defendant be bound and gagged during trial to prevent further interruptions.

hold order.

A notation in a prisoner's file stating that another jurisdiction has charges pending against the prisoner and instructing prison officials to alert authorities in that other jurisdiction instead of releasing the prisoner.