Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Code of Professional Responsibility
See MODEL CODE OF PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY.
Model Code of Professional Responsibility.
A set of ethical guidelines for lawyers, organized in the form of canons, disciplinary rules, and ethical considerations. ( Published by the ABA in 1969, this code has been replaced in most states by the Model Rules of Professional Conduct.
Responsibility
n. 1. LIABILITY (1). 2. Criminal law. A person's mental fitness to answer in court for his or her actions. See COMPETENCY. 3. Criminal law. Guilt. - Also termed (in senses 2 & 3) criminal responsibility. - responsible, adj. "[As for] the ambiguities of the word responsibility,' . . . it is, I think, still important to distinguish two of the very different things this difficult word may mean. To say that someone is legally responsible for something often means only that under legal rules he is liable to be made either to suffer or to pay compensation in certain eventualities. The expression he'll pay for it' covers both these things. In this the primary sense of the word, though a man is normally only responsible for his own actions or the harm he has done, he may be also responsible for the actions of other persons if legal rules so provide impaired'." H.L.A. Hart, "Changing Conceptions of Responsibility," in Punishment and Responsibility 186, 196-97 (1968).
criminal responsibility
See RESPONSIBILITY (1), (2).
diminished responsibility
See diminished capacity under CAPACITY (3).
financial-responsibility act
A state statute conditioning license and registration of motor vehicles on proof of insurance or other financial accountability.
financial-responsibility clause
A provision in an automobile insurance policy stating that the insured has at least the minimum amount of liability insurance coverage required by a state's financial-responsibility law.
parental-responsibility statute
A law imposing criminal sanctions (such as fines) on parents whose minor children commit crimes as a result of the parents' failure to exercise sufficient control over them. - Also termed controlyour-kid law.