Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Bare possibility
see naked possibility under possibility.
Legal impossibility
is a defense to the crime of attempt.impossibility-of-performance doctrine
Possibility
1 An event that may or may not happen. 2. A contingent interest in real or personal property.
factual impossibility
See IMPOSSIBILITY
factual impossibility.
Impossibility due to the fact that the illegal act cannot physically be accomplished, such as trying to pick an empty pocket. ( Factual impossibility is not a defense to the crime of attempt. - Also termed physical impossibility.
impossibility-of-performance doctrine
The principle that a party may be released from a contract on the ground that uncontrollable circumstances have rendered performance impossible. Cf. FRUSTRATION; IMPRACTICABILITY.
impossibility.
1. The fact or condition of not being able to occur, exist, or be done. 2. A fact or circumstance that cannot occur, exist, or be done. 3. Contracts. A fact or circumstance that excuses performance because (1) the subject or means of performance has deteriorated, has been destroyed, or is no longer available, (2) the method of delivery or payment has failed, (3) a law now prevents performance, or (4) death or illness prevents performance. 0 Increased or unexpected difficulty and expense do not usu. qualify as an impossibility and thus do not excuse performance. - Also termed impossibility of performance.
legal impossibility
See IMPOSSIBILITY.
legal impossibility.
Impossibility due to the fact that what the defendant intended to do is not illegal, such as hunting while erroneously believing that it is not hunting season.
naked possibility
See POSSIBILITY.
physical impossibility
See factual impossibility under IMPOSSIBILITY.
possibility coupled with an interest
An expectation recognized in law as an estate or interest, as occurs in an executory devise or in a shifting or springing use. ( This type of possibility may be sold or assigned.
possibility of reverter
A future interest retained by a grantor after conveying a fee simple determinable, so that the grantee's estate terminates automatically and reverts to the grantor if the terminating event ever occurs. 0 In this type of interest, the grantor transfers an estate whose maximum potential duration equals that of the grantor's own estate and attaches a special limitation that operates in the grantor's favor. - Often shortened to reverter. See fee simple determinable under FEE SIMPLE. Cf. POWER OF TERMINATION. "Most treatise-writers define the possibility of reverter as the interest a transferor keeps when he transfers a fee simple determinable or a fee simple conditional. See, e.g., 1 American Law of Property § 4.12; Simes & Smith § 281. Although this definition is all right as far as it goes, it fails to provide for interests less than the fee simple that are granted on special limitation .... Although we call the possibility of reverter an 'estate,' the courts of an earlier era would probably have called it a 'possibility of becoming an estate.' " Thomas F. Bergin & Paul G. Haskell, Preface to Estates in Land and Future Interests 58 n.5 (2d ed. 1984).
possibility on a possibility
See remote possibility under POSSIBILITY.
remote possibility
A limitation dependent on two or more facts or events that are contingent and uncertain; a double possibility. -Also termed possibility on a possibility.