Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Automatic suspension
see automatic stay under stay.
Suspension
1. The act of temporarily delaying, interrupting, or terminating something < suspension of business operations> <suspension of a statute>. 2. The state of such delay, interruption, or termination <corporate transfers were not allowed because of the suspension of business>. 3. The temporary deprivation of a person's powers or privileges, esp. of office or profession <suspension of her bar license>. 4. The temporary withdrawal from employment, as distinguished from permanent severance <suspension from teaching without pay>. 5. Eccles. law. An ecclesiastical censure that can be temporary or permanent, and partial or complete. See DEPRIVATION. 6. Scots law. The process of staying a judgment pending an appeal to the Supreme Court.
plea in suspension
A plea that shows some ground for not proceeding in the suit at the present time and prays that the proceedings be stayed until that ground is removed, such as a party's being a minor or the plaintiff's being an alien enemy.
suspension of arms
See TRUCE.
suspension of trading
The temporary cessation of all trading of a particular stock on a stock exchange because of some abnormal market condition.