Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.

Enschedule

ub. Archaic. To insert in a list, account, or writing. enseal, ub. Archaic. To seal (a document).

Schedule

n. A written list or inventory; esp., a statement that is attached to a document and that gives a detailed showing of the matters referred to in the document < Schedule B to the title policy lists the encumbrances on the property. - schedule, ub. - scheduled, adj. scheduled injury See INJURY.

amortization schedule

a schedule of periodic payments of interest and principal owed on a debt obligation; specif., a loan schedule showing both the amount of principal and interest that is due at regular intervals over the loan term and the remaining unpaid principal balance after each scheduled payment is made.

loan-amortization schedule

A schedule that divides each loan payment into an interest component and a principal component. ( Typically, the interest component begins as the largest part of each payment and declines over time. See AMORTIZATION (1).

minimum-fee schedule

Hist. A list of the lowest fees that a lawyer may charge, set by a state bar association. ( The courts held that minimum-fee schedules, now defunct, violated antitrust laws.

scheduled injury

A partially disabling injury for which a predetermined amount of compensation is allowed under a workers'-compensation statute.

scheduled property

Insurance. Property itemized on a list (usu. attached to an insurance policy) that records property values, which provide the basis for insurance payments in the event of a loss under an insurance policy.

tax-rate schedule

A schedule used to determine the tax on a given level of taxable income and based on a taxpayer's status (for example, married filing a joint income-tax return). -Also termed tax table.