Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Dormant Commerce Clause. The constitutional principle that the Commerce Clause prevents state regulation of interstate commercial activity even when Congress has not acted under its Commerce Clause po
Commerce Court. See COURT
Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act
A federal law, enacted in 1980, providing a penalty for child-kidnapping by a no custodial parent and requiring a state to recognize and enforce a child-custody order rendered by a court of another state. 28 USCA § 1738A; 42 USCA §§ 654, 655, 663. - Abbr. PKPA. Cf. UNIFORM CHILD CUSTODY JURISDICTION ACT.
Prevent
vb. To hinder or impede <a gag order to prevent further leaks to the press>. preventative custody See CUSTODY (1).
Prevention
Civil law. The right of one of several judges having concurrent jurisdiction to exercise that jurisdiction over a case that the judge is first to hear.
prevention doctrine
Contracts. The principle that each contracting party has an implied duty to not do anything that prevents the other party from performing its obligation. - Also termed prevention-of-performance doctrine.
preventive custody
Custody intended to prevent further dangerous or criminal behavior.
preventive detention
Confinement imposed usu. on a criminal defendant who has threatened to escape or has otherwise violated the law while awaiting trial, or on a mentally ill person who may cause harm. 2. An employee's custody of the employer's property without being considered as having legal possession of it.
preventive injunction
See INJUNCTION.
preventive injunction.
An injunction designed to prevent a loss or injury in the future. Cf. reparative injunction.
preventive punishment
Punishment the purpose of which is to prevent a repetition of wrongdoing by disabling the offender.
writ of prevention
A writ to prevent the filing of a lawsuit. See QUIA TIMET.