Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Controvert
ub. To dispute or contest; esp., to deny (as an allegation in a pleading) or oppose in argument <the allegations in Peck's pleadings were never adequately controverted>.
Overt
adj. Open and observable; not concealed or secret <the conspirators' overt acts>.
Overtime
1. The hours worked by an employee in excess of a standard day or week. 0 Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, employers must pay extra wages (usu. 1'fz times the regular hourly rate) to certain employees (usu. nonsalaried ones) for each hour worked in excess of 40 hours per week. 2. The extra wages paid fox excess hours worked.
Overtry
ub. (Of a trial lawyer) to try a lawsuit by expending excessive time, effort, and other resources to explore minutiae, esp. to present more evidence than the fact-trier can assimilate, the result often being that the adversary gains arguing points by disputing the minutiae
Overturn
ub. To overrule or reverse <the court overturned a long-established precedent>.
Poverty
1 The condition of being indigent; the scarcity of the means of subsistence <war on poverty>. 2. Dearth of something desirable <a poverty of ideas>.
covert baron
[Law French] Hist. The condition or status of a married woman at common law. - Also written cover-baron. - Also termed covert de baron. "By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law: that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband: under whose wing, protection, and cover, she performs every thing; and is therefore called in our law-french a (eme-covert; is said to be covert-baron, or under the protection and influence of her husband, her baron, or lord; and her condition during her marriage is called her couerture." 1 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 430 (1765).
coverture
n. Archaic. The condition of being a married woman <under former law, a woman under coverture was allowed to sue only through the personality of her husband>. - covert (kav-art), adj. "Coverture, is a french word signifying any thing that covereth, as apparell, a coverlet .... It is particularly applied in our common laws, to the estate and condition of a marled woman, who by the lawes of our realme, is in (potestate uiri) and therefore disabled to contract with any, to the preiudice of her selfe or her husband, without his consent and privity; or at the least, without his allowance and confirmation." John Cowell, The Interpreter (1607). "Couerture is by law applied to the state and condition of a married woman, who is sub potestati uiri, (under the power of her husband) and therefore unable to contract with any to the damage of herself or husband, without his consent and privity, or his allowance and confirmation thereof. When a woman is married she is called a Femme couuert, and whatever is done concerning her during marriage is said to be done during coverture."
discovert
adj. 1. Archaic. Uncovered; exposed. 2. Not married, esp. a widow or a woman who has never married.
doctrine of incontrovertible physical facts
See PHYSICAL-FACTS RULE.
feme covert
[Law French] Archaic. A married woman. See COVERTURE.
incontrovertible-physical-facts doctrine
See PHYSICAL-FACTS RULE.
market overt
An open, legally regulated public market where buyers, with some exceptions, acquire good title to products regardless of any defects in the seller's title. Cf. FAIR.
overt act
Criminal law. 1. An act that indicates an intent to kill or seriously harm another person and thus gives that person a justification to use self-defense. 2. An outward act, however innocent in itself, done in furtherance of a conspiracy, treason, or criminal attempt. ( An overt act is usu. a required element of these crimes. 3. See ACTUS REDS. - Also termed positive act.
poverty affidavit
an affidavit made by an indigent person seeking public assistance, appointment of counsel, waiver of court fees, or other free public services. 28 usca ยง 1915. -also termed pauper's affidavit; in forma pauperis affidavit; ifp affidavit.