Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Statist
1. Archaic. A statesman; a politician. 2. A statistician.
crime statistics
Figures compiled by a governmental agency to show the incidence of various types of crime within a defined geographic area during a specified time.
statistical-decision theory
A method for determining whether a panel of potential jurors was selected from a fair cross-section of the community, by calculating the probabilities of selecting a certain number of jurors from a particular group to analyze whether it is statistically probable that the jury pool was selected by mere chance. ( This method has been criticized because a pool of potential jurors is not ordinarily selected by mere chance; potential jurors are disqualified for a number of legitimate reasons. See FAIR-CROSS-SECTION REQUIREMENT; ABSOLUTE DISPARITY; COMPARATIVE DISPARITY; DUREN TEST.
vital statistics
Public records - usu. relating to matters such as births, marriages, deaths, diseases, and the like - that are statutorily mandated to be kept by a city, state, or other governmental subdivision. ( On the admissibility of vital statistics, see Fed. R. Evid. 803 (9).