Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Sergeant
1. Hist. A person who is not a knight but holds lands by tenure of military service. 2. Hist. A municipal officer performing duties for the Crown. 3. Hist. A bailiff. 4. SERGEANT-ATARMS. 5. A noncommissioned officer in the armed forces ranking a grade above a corporal. 6. An officer in the police force ranking below a captain or lieutenant. - Also spelled serjeant.
Sergeant Schultz defense
An assertion by a criminal or civil defendant who claims that he or she was not an active participant in an alleged scheme or conspiracy, and that he or she knew nothing, saw nothing, and heard nothing. 0 This defense is named after a character from the television series Hogan's Heroes, in which Sergeant Schultz, a German guard in charge of prisoners of war during World War II, would avoid controversy over the prisoners' schemes by proclaiming that he saw nothing and knew nothing.
sergeant-at-arms
1. Hist. An armed officer attending a sovereign. 2. An officer the Crown assigns to attend a session of Parliament. 3. A court-appointed officer to attend a legislative body, as by serving process and maintaining order during a legislative session. - Also spelled serjeant-at-arms.