Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Mainstreaming
The practice of educating a disabled student in a class with students who are not disabled, in a regular-education setting, as opposed to a special-education one. Cf. LEAST-RESTRICTIVE ENVIRONMENT.
Stream
Anything liquid that flows in a line or course; esp., a current of water consisting of a bed, bank, and watercourse, use. emptying into other bodies of water but not losing its character even if it breaks up or disappears.
Upstreaming
A parent corporation's use of a subsidiary's cash flow or assets for purposes unrelated to the subsidiary.
downstream merger
A merger of a parent corporation into its subsidiary.
esp., an imaginary line drawn lengthwise through the middle of a stream's current. mid-level scrutiny
See INTERMEDIATE SCRUTINY.
private stream
A watercourse, the bed, channel, or waters of which are exclusively owned by private parties.
stream-of-commerce theory
1 The principle that a state may exercise personal jurisdiction over a defendant if the defendant places a product in the general marketplace and the product causes injury or damage in the forum state, as long as the defendant also takes other acts to establish some connection with the forum state, as by advertising there or by hirin,, ,orneone to serve ;es a sales aPent then,. Asulit Metal Indus. Co., Ltd. u. Superior Court of California, 480 U.S. 102, 107 S.Ct. 1026 (1987!. 2. The principle that a person who participate in placing a defective product in the general marketplace is strictly liable for harm caused by the product. Restatement (Second) of Torts ยง 402A (1979
undercurrent of surface stream
Water that moves slowly through the bed of a stream or lands under or immediately adjacent to the stream. ( This water is considered part of the surface stream. - Also termed underflow of surface stream.
underflow of surface stream
See UNDERCURRENT OF SURFACE STREAM.
upstream merger
See MERGER.
upstream merger.
A merger of a subsidiary corporation into its parent.