Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Pending
prep. 1. Throughout the continuance of; during <in escrow pending arbitration>. 2. While awaiting; until <the injunction was in force pending trial>.
deficit spending
Expenditures in excess of income, usu. from borrowed funds rather than actual revenues or surplus.
patent issued within a year of the pending application's filing date. - interfere, ub. interference with a business relationship
See TORTIOUSINTERFERENCE WITH PROSPECTIVE ADVANTAGE.
patent pending
The designation given to an invention while the Patent and Trademark Office is processing the patent application. ( No protection against infringement exists, however, unless an actual patent is granted. - Abbr. pat. pend.
pending-ordinance doctrine
The principle that a municipality may properly deny an application for a property use that, although it would satisfy existing law, would violate a law that is pending when the application is made. This doctrine was judicially created, mainly to short-circuit landowners' attempts to circumvent a new ordinance by applying for a nonconforming use on the eve of its approval.
spending power
The power granted to a governmental body to spend public funds; esp., the congressional power to spend money for the payment of debt and provision of the common defense and general welfare of the United States. U.S. Const. art. I, ยง 8, cl. 1.