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Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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

Attestation clause

A provision at the end of an instrument (esp. A will) that is signed by the instrument's witnesses and that recites the formalities required by the jurisdiction in which the instrument might take effect (such as where the will might be probated). ( the attestation strengthens the presumption that all the statutory requirements for executing the will have been satisfied. Cf. Testimonium clause. Attested copy. See certified copy under copy.

Protestation

Common-law pleading. A declaration by which a party makes an oblique allegation or denial of some fact, claiming that it does or does not exist or is or is not legally sufficient, while not directly affirming or denying the fact. "The practice of protestation of facts not denied arose where the pleader, wishing to avail himself of the right to contest in a future action some traversable fact in the pending action, passes it by without traverse, but at the same time makes a declaration collateral or incidental to his main pleading, importing that the fact so passed over is untrue. The necessity for this arose from the rule that pleadings must not be double, and that every pleading is taken to admit such matters as it does not traverse. Such being its only purpose, it is wholly without effect in the action in which it occurs ...." Benjamin J. Shipman, Handbook of Common-Law Pleading ยง 207, at 358 (Henry Winthrop Ballantine ed., 3d ed. 1923).

Testation

1 The disposal of property by will; the power to dispose of property by will. 2. Archaic. Attestation; a witnessing.

contestation of suit

Eccles. law. The point in an action when the defendant answers the plaintiff's libel (i.e., complaint); the plea and joinder of an issue. - Also termed contestatio litis.

perfect attestation clause

A provision in a testamentary instrument asserting that all actions required to make a valid testamentary disposition have been performed. perfect competition See COMPETITION,