Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
A terme de sa vie
[law french] for the term of his life.
Architectural review
see design review.
Autre vie
[law french] another's life. See pur autre vie; vie.
Court of Military Review
See COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS (1).
En eschange it covient que les estates soient egales
In an exchange it is desirable that the estates be equal.
La ley favour la vie dun home
The law favors a man's life.
Privies
See PRIVY.
Review
n. Consideration, inspection, or reexamination of a subject or thing. - review, vb.
Unreviewable
adj. Incapable of being legally or judicially reviewed <the claim is unreviewable on appeal>.
Vie
(vee). [French] Life. ( The term occurs in such Law French phrases as cestui que vie and pur autre vie.
View
n. 1. The common-law right of prospect -that is, an outlook from the windows of one's house. 2. An urban servitude that prohibits the obstruction of the outlook from a person's house. 3. A jury's inspection of a place relevant to a case it is considering; the act or proceeding by which a tribunal goes to observe an object that cannot be produced in court because it is immovable or inconvenient to remove. ( The appropriate procedures are typically regulated by state statute. At common law, and today in many civil cases, the trial judge's presence is not required. The common practice has been for the jury to be conducted to the scene by "showers" who are commissioned for this purpose. Parties and counsel are generally permitted to attend, although this is a matter typically within the trial judge's discretion. Cf. VIEW OF AN INQUEST. 4. In a real action, a defendant's observation of the thing at issue to ascertain its identity and other circumstances surrounding it. Cf. DEMAND OF VIEW.
Viewer
. A person, usu. one of several, appointed by a court to investigate certain matters or to examine a particular locality (such as the proposed site of a new road) and to report to the court.
administrative review
1. Judicial review of an administrative proceeding. 2. Review of an administrative proceeding within the agency itself.
administrative review.
See REVIEW.
appellate review
Examination of a lower court's decision by a higher court, which can affirm, reverse, or modify the decision.
bill in the nature of a bill of review.
See BILL (2).
bill of review.
See BILL (2).
board of review.
1. A body that reviews administrative-agency decisions. 2. A body that reviews property-tax assessments. 3. In some cities, a board that reviews allegations of police misconduct.
cestui que vie
The person whose life measures the duration of a trust, gift, estate, or insurance contract. "[L]et us assume that A instead transfers 'to E for the life of A.' Since A has used his own life as the measuring life of E's estate, A has given away all that he had. Because E's estate is measured by the life of someone other than himself, his estate is called an estate par autre vie. A, whose life is the measuring life, is called the cestui que vie." Thomas F. Bergin & Paul G. Haskell, Preface to Estates in Land and Future Interests 36 (2d ed. 1984).
clear-view doctrine
See PLAIN-VIEW DOCTRINE.
commission of review
Hist. In England, an authorization sometimes granted in an extraordinary case to review a judgment of the Court of Delegates. ( The commission of review is no longer used because the Privy Council was substituted for the Court of Delegates as the appellate court in ecclesiastical cases in 1832. See COURT OF DELEGATES.
court of review
See appellate court.
de novo judicial review
A court's nondeferential review of an administrative decision, usu. through a review of the administrative record plus any additional evidence the parties present.
de novo review
See appeal de novo under APPEAL.
de sa vie
[Law French] Of one's own life, as distinguished from pur autre vie ("for another's life").
demand of view
Hist. In a real action, a defendant's request to see the thing at issue to ascertain its identity and the circumstances of the claim. 0 If a real action was brought against a tenant who did not know what land was at issue, the tenant might demand a view. See VIEW (4).
design review
A process by which a building permit is not issued until the proposed building meets the architectural standards established by land-use regulations. - Also termed architectural review. desist. To stop or leave off. See CEASE-AND-DESIST ORDER.
discretionary review
The form of appellate review that is not a matter of right but that occurs only with the appellate court's permission. See CERTIORARI.
en vie
[Law French "in life"] Alive.
foster-care review board
A board that reviews the permanent plans of foster-care placement of neglected and abused children.
judicial review
See JUDICIAL REVIEW.
law review
1 A journal containing scholarly articles, essays, and other commentary on legal topics by professors, judges, law students, and practitioners. ( Law reviews are usu. published at law schools and edited by law students < law reviews are often grossly overburdened with substantive footnotes>. 2. The law-student staff and editorial board of such a journal < she made law review>.
libel of review
Maritime law. A new proceeding attacking a final decree after the right to appeal has expired. See LIBEL (3).
life estate pur autre vie
A life estate for which the measuring life - the life whose duration determines the duration of the estate - is someone other than the life tenant. - Also spelled life estate per autre vie.
peer-review organization
A government agency that monitors health-regulation compliance by private hospitals requesting public funds (such as Medicare payments). - Abbr. PRO.
peer-review privilege
A privilege that protects from disclosure the proceedings and reports of a medical facility's peer-review committee, which reviews and oversees the patient care and medical services provided by the staff.
peer-reviewed journal
A publication whose practice is to forward submitted articles to disinterested experts who screen them for scholarly or scientific reliability, the idea being that articles actually published have already withstood expert scrutiny and comment.
per autre vie
See PUR AUTRE VIE.
plain-view doctrine
Criminal procedure. The rule permitting a police officer's warrantless seizure and use as evidence of an item observed in plain view from a lawful position or during a legal search when the officer has probable cause to believe that the item is evidence of a crime. - Also termed clear-view doctrine; plain-sight rule. Cf. OPEN-FIELDS DOCTRINE. PI". See price-level-adjusted mortgage under MORTGAGE.
plaintiff's-viewpoint rule
The principle that courts should measure the amount in controversy in a case by analyzing only the amount of damages claimed by the plaintiff. plain-touch doctrine See PLAIN-FEEL DOCTRINE.
praedium serviens
[Latin] An estate burdened by a servitude; a servient estate.
proportionality review
Criminal law. An appellate court's analysis of whether a death sentence is arbitrary or capricious by comparing the case in which it was imposed with similar cases in which the death penalty was approved or disapproved.
pur autre vie
Law French "for another's life"] For or durinh a period measured by another's life <a life estate pur autre vie>. - Also spelled per autre r e purchase n. 1. The act or an instance of buying. 2. The acquisition of real property by one's own or another's act (as by will or gift) rather than by descent or inheritance. - purchase, ub. Cf. DESCENT (1).
purview
1. Scope; area of application. 2. The body of a statute following the preamble.
res serviens
[Latin] The servient property subject to a servitude. See servient estate under ESTATE.
reviewable issue
See appealable decision uI der DECISION,
serviens narrator
See SERJEANT-AT-LAW.
servient
adj. (Of an estate) subject to a servitude or easement. See servient estate under ESTATE.
servient estate
An estate burdened by an easement. - Also termed servient tenement; servient property; lower estate. CE dominant estate.
servient property
See servient estate under ESTATE.