Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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

John Doe summons

1 A summons to a person whose name is unknown at the time of service. 2. Tax. A summons from the Internal Revenue Service to a third party to provide information on an unnamed, unknown tax payer with potential tax liability. - Also termed third party record-custodian sum mons.

Resummons

A second or renewed summons to a party or witness already summoned. See SUMMONS.

Summons

ub 1 SUMMON. 2. To request (information) by summons. "The horrible expression 'summonsed for an offence' (turning the noun 'summons' into a verb) has now become accepted usage, but 'summoned' remains not only allowable but preferable." Glanville Williams, Learning the Law 15 n.28 (11th ed. 1982).

alias summons

A second summons issued after the original summons has failed for some reason.

short summons

A summons having a response time less than that of an ordinary summons, usu. served on a fraudulent or nonresident debtor.

short summons.

See SUMMONS.

third-party record-custodian summons

See John Doe summons under SUMMONS.

writ of summons

English lace. A writ by which, under the Judicature Acts of 1873-1875, all actions were commenced. See SUMMONS.