Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Suspend
ub. 1. To interrupt; postpone; defer <the fire alarm suspended the prosecutor's opening statement>. 2. To temporarily keep (a person) from performing a function, occupying an office, holding a job, or exercising a right or privilege <the attorney's law license was suspended for violating the Model Rules of Professional Conduct>.
bill to suspend a decree.
A bill brought to set aside a decree.
suspendatur per collum
[Law French] Hist. Let him be hanged by the neck. ( This phrase was written by a judge in the margin of the sheriff's calendar, opposite the name of a prisoner who had been sentenced to death. - Abbr. sus. per coll. "And now the usage is, for the judge to sign the calendar, or list of all the prisoners' names, with their separate judgments in the margin, which is left with the sheriff. As, for capital felony, it is written opposite to the prisoner's name, 'hanged by the neck;' formerly, in the days of Latin and abbreviation, 'sus. per call.' for 'suspendatur per collum.' And this is the only warrant that the sheriff has for so material an act as taking away life of another." 4 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 396 (1769).
suspended sentence
See SENTENCE.
suspended sentence.
A sentence postponed so that the defendant is not required to serve time unless he or she commits another crime or violates some other court-imposed condition. ( A suspended sentence, in effect, is a form of probation. - Also termed withheld sentence.