Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Primary
n. See primary election under ELECTION.
Primary authority
authority that issues directly from a law-making body; legislation and the reports of litigated cases.
Primary beneficiary.
The person designated in a life-insurance policy to receive the proceeds when the insured dies.
primary activity
Labor law. Concerted action (such as a strike or picketing) directed against an employer with which a union has a dispute. Cf. SECONDARY ACTIVITY.
primary allegation
See ALLEGATION.
primary authority
See AUTHORITY (4).
primary beneficiary
See BENEFICIARY.
primary boycott
A boycott by union members who stop dealing with a former employer.
primary cause
See proximate cause.
primary committee
Bankruptcy. A group of creditors organized to help the debtor draw up a reorganization plan.
primary conveyance
A conveyance that creates an estate. ( Examples of primary conveyances include feoffment, gift, grant, lease, exchange, and partition. - Also termed original conveyance. Cf. secondary conveyance."Of conveyances by the common law, some may be called original, or primary conveyances; which are those by means whereof the benefit or estate is created or first arises: others are derivative or secondary; whereby the benefit or estate, originally created, is enlarged, restrained, transferred, or extinguished." 2 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 309 (1766).
primary election
A preliminary election in which a political party's registered voters nominate the candidate who will run in the general election. - Often shortened to primary.
primary evidence
See best evidence.
primary fact
See FACT.
primary insurance
See INSURANCE.
primary jurisdiction doctrine
A judicial doctrine whereby a court tends to favor allowing an agency an initial opportunity to decide an issue in a case in which the court and the agency have concurrent jurisdiction.
primary lease
See HEADLEASE.
primary liability
Liability for which one is directly responsible, as opposed to secondary liability.
primary market
See MARKET.
primary mortgage market
See MORTGAGE MARKET.
primary obligation
See OBLIGATION.
primary offering
An offering of newly issued securities.
primary plea
See primary allegation under ALLEGATION.
primary powers
The chief powers given by a principal to an agent to accomplish the agent's tasks. Cf. MEDIATE POWERS.
primary reserve ratio
The ratio between a bank's required reserves (cash in vault plus deposits with Federal Reserve Banks) and its demand and time deposits.
primary right
A right prescribed by the substantive law, such as a right not to be defamed or assaulted. ( The enforcement of a primary right is termed specific enforcement.
primary-line competition
See horizontal competition under COMPETITION.
primary-line injury
Antitrust. Under the price-discrimination provisions of the Robinson-Patman Act, the practice of charging below-cost, predatory prices in an attempt to eliminate the seller's competition in the market. 15 USCA ยง 13(a). ( A primary-line injury, which hinders or seeks to hinder competition among the seller's competitors, is distinguishable from a secondary-line injury, which refers to discriminatory pricing that hinders or seeks to hinder competition among the seller's customers, by favoring one customer over another in the prices the seller charges. Cf. SECONDARYLINE INJURY.