Dictionary Search: "Paper" - Pakistan Law Portal

Bankable paper

see paper,

Bearer paper.

see paper

Federalist Papers

A series of 85 essays written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison (under the pseudonym Publius) expounding on and advocating the adoption of the U.S. Constitution. ( Most of the essays were published in 1787 and 1788. - Also termed The Federalist.

Paper

1. Any written or printed document or instrument. 2. A negotiable document or instrument evidencing a debt; esp., commercial documents or negotiable instruments considered as a group. See NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENT. 3. (pl.) COURT PAPERS.

Sandpapering

n. A lawyer's general preparation of a witness before a deposition or trial. Cf. HORSESHEDDING.

Valuable papers

Document that upon a person's death, are important in carrying out tht decedent's wishes and in managing the estate'; affairs. ( Examples include a will, title documents, stock certificates, powers of attorney. letters to be opened on one's death, and the like. Some statutes require that, to be effective a devising realty among the decedent's valuable paper

accommodation paper

A negotiable instrument that one party cosigns, without receiving any consideration, as surety for another party who remains primarily liable. * An accommodation paper is typically used when the cosigner is more creditworthy than the principal debtor. - Also termed accommodation bill; accommodation note.

bankable paper

Notes, checks, bank bills,drafts, and other instruments received as cash by banks

bearer paper

An instrument payable to the person who holds it rather than to the order of a specific person. ( Bearer paper is negotiated simply by delivering the instrument to a transferee. - Also termed bearer document; bearer instrument.

chattel paper

. See CHATTEL PAPER.

commercial paper

1. An instrument, other than cash, for the payment of money. ( Commercial paper - typically existing in the form of a draft (such as a check) or a note (such as a certificate of deposit) - is governed by Article 3 of the UCC. But even though the UCC uses the term commercial paper when referring to negotiable instruments of a particular kind (drafts, checks, certificates of deposit, and notes as defined by Article 3), the term. long predates the UCC as a business and legal term in common use. Before the UCC, it was generally viewed as synonymous with negotiable paper or bills and notes. It was sometimes applied even to nonnegotiable instruments. - Also termed mercantile paper. See NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENT. "

commercial paper.

See PAPER.

commodity paper

An instrument representing a loan secured by a bill of lading or warehouse receipt.

court papers

All documents that a party files with the court, including pleadings, motions, notices, and the like. - Often shortened to papers. - Also termed suit papers.

daily newspaper

A newspaper customarily published five to seven days every week. -Often shortened to daily.

electronic chattel paper

See CHATTEL PAPER.

electronic chattel paper. Chattel paper evidenced by a record or records consisting of information stored in an electronic medium and retrievable in perceivable form. UCC § 9-102(a)(22).tangible chatt

See CHATTEL.

in paper

Hist. Of a proceeding that is within the jurisdiction of the trial court; that is, before the record is prepared for an appeal. "Formerly, the suitors were much perplexed by writs of error brought upon very slight and trivial grounds, as misspellings and other mistakes of the clerks, all which might be amended at the common law, while all the proceedings were in paper, for they were then considered in fieri, and therefore subject to the control of the courts." 3 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 407 (1768).

legal newspaper

See NEWSPAPER.

legal newspaper.

A newspaper containing matters of legal interest including summaries of cases, legal advertisements, legislative or regulatory changes, and local bankruptcy notices.

mercantile paper

See commercial paper (1) under PAPER.

moving papers

The papers that constitute or support a motion in a court proceeding. - Also termed motion papers.

negotiable paper

See NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENT.

newspaper of general circulation.

A newspaper that contains news and information of interest to the general public, rather than to a particular segment, and that is available to the public within a certain geographic area. ( Legal notices (such as a classaction notice) are often required by law to be published in a newspaper of general circulation.

newspaper prospectus

A summary prospectus that the SEC allows to be disseminated through advertisements in newspapers, magazines, or other periodicals sent through the mails as second-class matter (though not distributed by the advertiser), when the securities involved are issued by a foreign national government with which the United States maintains diplomatic relations.

newspaper.

A publication for general circulation, usu. in sheet form, appearing at regular intervals, usu. daily or weekly, and containing matters of general public interest, such as current events.

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.

official newspaper.

See NEWSPAPER.

order paper

An instrument payable to a specific payee or to any person that the payee designates. - Also termed order document; order instrument

paper currency

, checks, and drafts. 2. Current cash, as opposed to money on account. money bequest See pecuniary bequest under BEQUEST.

paper loss

See LOSS.

paper money

Paper documents that circulate as currency; bills drawn by a government against its own credit.

paper patent

A patent granted for a discovery or invention that has never been used commercially. ( A paper patent receives less protection under the law than a patent granted for a device that is actually used in industry.

paper profit

See PROFIT.

paper standard

A monetary system based entirely on paper; a system of currency that is not convertible into gold or other precious metal. Cf. GOLD STANDARD.

paper street

A thoroughfare that appears on plats, subdivision maps, and other publicly filed documents, but that has not been completed or opened for public use.

paper title

See TITLE (2).

ship's papers

Maritime law. The papers that a vessel is required to carry to provide the primary evidence of the ship's national character, ownership, nature and destination of cargo, and compliance with navigation laws. ( This evidence includes certificates of health, charterparty, muster-rolls, licenses, and bills of lading.

single-name paper

A negotiable instrument signed by only one maker and not backed by a surety.

state paper

1. A document prepared by or relating to a state or national government and affecting the administration of that government in its political or international relations. 2. A newspaper officially designated for the publication of public statutes, resolutions, notices, and advertisements.

state paper office

Hist. An office established in London in 1578, headed by the Clerk of the Papers, to maintain custody of state documents.

tangible chattel paper