Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Bail-point scale
a system for determining a criminal defendant's eligibility for bail, whereby a defendant either will be released on personal recognizance or will have a bail amount set according to the total number of points given, based on the defendant's background and behavior.
Scale
n. 1. A progression of degrees; esp., a range of wage rates. 2. A wage according to a range of rates. 3. An instrument for weighing. 4. Hist. In the practice of the English Supreme Court of Judicature, the fee charged by a solicitor for a particular type of case. ( Unless the court ordered otherwise, the lower scale applied to all causes and matters assigned by the Judicature Acts to the King's Bench, or the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty divisions; to all actions for debt, contract, or tort; and to almost all causes and matters assigned by the acts to the Chancery division and in which the amount in controversy was less than £1,000. The higher scale applied in all other cases, and in actions falling under one of the lower-scale classes if the principal relief sought was injunctive.
economy of scale
(usu. pl.) A decline in a product's per-unit production cost resulting from increased output, usu. due to increased production facilities; savings resulting from the greater efficiency of large-scale processes. e contra (ee kon-tray. [Latin] On the contrary.
lower scale
See SCALE.
scale order
An order to buy or sell a security at varying price ranges.
scale order.
See ORDER (4)
scale tolerance
The nominal variation of the mass or weight of the same goods on different scales.
sliding scale
A pricing method in which prices are determined by a person's ability to pay.