Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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Protectio trahit subjectionem, subjectio protectionem

Protection brings submission; submission (brings) protection.

Subjection

1 The act of subjecting someone to something <their subjection to torture was unconscionable. 2. The condition of a subject in a monarchy; the obligations surrounding such a person <a subject, wherever residing, owes fidelity and obedience to the Crown, while an alien may be released at will from all such ties of subjection>. 3. The condition of being subject, exposed, or liable; liability <the defendants' subjection to the plaintiffs became clear shortly after the trial began>. - Also termed (in sense 3) liability; susceptibility.