Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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Stacking

1. Insurance. The process of obtaining benefits from a second policy on the same claim when recovery from the first policy alone would be inadequate.

Tacking

1. The joining of consecutive periods of possession by different persons to treat the periods as one continuous period; esp., the adding of one's own period of land possession to that of a prior possessor to establish continuous adverse possession for the statutory period. See ADVERSE POSSESSION. 2. The joining of a junior lien with the first lien in order to acquire priority over an intermediate lien.

judicial stacking

The principle that a court can construe insurance policies to permit stacking, under certain circumstances, when the policies do not specifically provide for stacking but public policy is best served by permitting it.

policy stacking

See STACKING.