Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Railroad
ub. 1. To transport by train. 2. To send (a measure) hastily through a legislature so that there is little time for consideration and debate. 3. To convict (a person) hastily, esp. by the use of false charges or insufficient evidence.
railroad company
See railroad corporation under CORPORATION.
railroad corporation
A company organized to construct, maintain, and operate railroads. - Also termed railroad company."A railroad company or corporation is usually regarded as a private corporation, and justly so, as contrasted with a strictly public corporation, such as a city, county, township, or the like governmental subdivision, but it is not a private corporation in the strict sense that an ordinary business corporation is, for it is charged with duties of a public nature that distinguish it from a purely and strictly private corporation." 1 Byron K. Elliott & William F. Elliott, A Treatise on the Law of Railroads ยง 3, at 7 (3d ed. 1921).
railroad-aid bond
A bond issued by a public body to fund railway construction.