Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Pack
vb. To choose or arrange (a tribunal, jurors, etc.) to accomplish a desired result <pack a jury>.
court-packing plan
A unsuccessful proposal -made in 1937 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt - to increase the number of U.S. Supreme Court justices from nine to fifteen. ( The ostensible purpose of the proposal was to increase the court's efficiency, but President Roosevelt wanted to appoint justices who would not block his administration's New Deal programs.
jury-packing
The act or an instance of contriving to have a jury composed of persons who are predisposed toward one side or the other. -Also termed packing a jury. Cf. EMBRACERY; JURY-FIXING.
original-package doctrine
. Constitutional law. The principle that imported goods are exempt from state taxation as long as they are unsold and remain in the original packaging. ( The Supreme Court abolished this doctrine in 1976, holding that states can tax imported goods if the tax is nondiscriminatory. See IMPORT-EXPORT CLAUSE. original precedent See PRECEDENT.
package mortgage
A mortgage that includes both real and incidental personal property, such as a refrigerator or stove.
packing a jury
See JURY-PACKING.
packing,
n. A gerrymandering technique in which a dominant political or racial group minimizes minority representation by concentrating the minority into as few districts as possible. Cf CRACKING; STACKING (2).
sentence-package rule
Criminal procedure. The principle that a defendant can be resentenced on an aggregate sentence - that is, one arising from a conviction on multiple counts in an indictment - when the defendant successfully challenges part of the conviction, as by successfully challenging some but not all of the counts.