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Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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

Nonsupport

The failure to support a person that one is legally obliged to provide for, such as a child, spouse, or other dependent. ( Nonsupport is a crime in most states, where it is often termed criminal nonsupport.

Quod omnes tangit, ab omnibus debet supportari

What touches (or concerns) all ought to be supported by all.

Support

n. 1 Sustenance or maintenance; esp., articles such as food and clothing that allow one to live in the degree of comfort to which one is accustomed. See MAINTENANCE (5); NECESSARIES. 2. Basis or foundation. 3. The right to have one's ground braced so that it does not cave in because of another landowner's actions. - support, ub.

Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act

A uniform law providing a procedure by which an alimony or child-support decree issued by one state can be enforced against a former spouse who resides in another state. -Abbr. URESA.

child support

Family law. 1. A parent's legal obligation to contribute to the economic maintenance and education of a child. 0 The obligation is enforceable both civilly and criminally. 2. In a custody or divorce action, the money legally owed by one parent to the other for the expenses incurred for children of the marriage. Cf. ALIMONY.

easement of natural support

See lateral support under SUPPORT.

lateral support

The right to have one's land supported by the land that lies next to it. - Also termed easement of natural support.

price support

The artificial maintenance of prices (as of a particular commodity) at a certain level, esp. by governmental action (as by subsidy).

right of support

Property. 1. A landowner's right to have the land supported by adjacent land and by the underlying earth. 2. A servitude giving the owner of a house the right to rest timber on the walls of a neighboring house.

separate support

See separate maintenance under MAINTENANCE.

spousal support

See ALIMONY.

subjacent support

The right to have one's land supported by the earth that lies underneath it.

support deed

A deed by which a person (usu. a parent) conveys land to another (usu. a son or daughter) with the understanding that the grantee will support the grantor for life. ( Support deeds often result in litigation.

support obligation

A secondary obligation or letter-of-credit right that supports the payment or performance of an account, chattel paper, general intangible, document, healthcare-insurance receivable, instrument, or investment property. UCC ยง 9-102(a)(53).

support order

An out-of-state support order.

support price

A minimum price set by the federal government for a particular agricultural commodity.

support trust

A trust in which the trustee pays to the beneficiary only as much trust income as the trustee believes is needed for the beneficiary's support. a As with a spendthrift trust, the beneficiary's interest cannot be assigned or reached by creditors.

visible means of support

An apparent method of earning a livelihood. ( Vagrancy statutes have long used this phrase to describe those who have no ostensible ability to support themselves.