Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Wheel
Hist. 1. An instrument of torture used in medieval Europe, consisting of a wheel or cross l on which a criminal was bound with arms and legs extended, while the criminal's bones were broken one by one with an iron bar, usu. until death. 2. The torture itself.
jury wheel
A physical device or electronic system used for storing and randomly selecting names of potential jurors.
wheel conspiracy
A conspiracy in which a single member or group (the "hub") separately agrees with two or more other members or groups (the "spokes"). ( The person or group at the hub is the only part liable for all the conspiracies. - Also termed circle conspiracy; hub-and-spoke conspiracy.
wheelage
, n. Hist. A duty or toll for a vehicle to pass over certain property.