Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Unlawful
adj. 1. Not authorized by law; illegal <in some cities, jaywalking is unlawful>. 2. Criminally punishable <unlawful entry>. 3. Involving moral turpitude <the preacher spoke to the congregation about the unlawful activities of gambling and drinking>. - unlawfully, adv.
Unlawful assembly
a meeting of three or more persons who intend either to commit a violent crime or to carry out some act, lawful or unlawful, that will constitute a breach of the peace. Cf. Riot.
resisting unlawful arrest
The act of opposing a police officer who is making an unlawful arrest. ( Most jurisdictions have accepted the Model Penal Code position prohibiting the use of force to resist an unlawful arrest when the person arrested knows that a police officer is making the arrest. But some jurisdictions allow an arrestee to use nondeadly force to prevent the arrest.
unlawful act
Conduct that is not authorized by law; a violation of a civil or criminal law.
unlawful assembly
See ASSEMBLY.
unlawful condition
A condition that cannot be fulfilled without violating the law. Loosely, a term, provision, or clause in a contract."This term condition is generally used to describe any fact, subsequent to the formation of a contract, which operates to make the duty of a promisor immediately active and compelling. Such a fact may be described as such in a term of the contract or it may not. In either event; the term of the contract should not itself be called the condition .... It is not uncommon, popularly, to speak of a condition of the contract as synonymous with term or provision of the contract. This should be avoided." William R. Anson, Principles of the Law of Contract 226 n.1 (Arthur L. Corbin ed., 3d Am. ed. 1919).
unlawful detainer
The unjustifiable retention of the possession of real property by one whose original entry was lawful, as when a tenant holds over after lease termination despite the landlord's demand for possession. 2. The confinement of a person in custody. 3. A writ authorizing a prison official to continue holding a prisoner in custody.
unlawful entry
1 The crime of entering another's property, by fraud or other illegal means, without the owner's consent. 2. An alien's crossing of a border into a country without proper documents.
unlawful force
Action constituting an offense or actionable tort directed against a person without that person's consent.
unlawful interference with contractual relations
See TORTIOUS INTERFERENCE WITH CONTRACTUAL RELATIONS.
unlawful picketing
Picketing carried on in violation of law, as when the picketers use threats or violence to dissuade other employees from returning to work.
unlawful sexual intercourse
See RAPE.
unlawful-detainer proceeding
An action to return a wrongfully held tenancy (as one held by a tenant after the lease has expired) to its owner. See unlawful detainer under DETAINER.