Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
acquiesce
ub. To accept tacitly or passively; to give implied consent to (an act) <in the end, all the partners acquiesced in the settlement>. - acquiescent, adj.
acquiescence
1. A person's tacit or passive acceptance; implied consent to an act. 2. Int'l law. Passivity and inaction on foreign claims that, according to customary international law, usu. call for protest to assert, preserve, or safeguard rights. 0 The result is that binding legal effect is given to silence and inaction. Acquiescence, as a principle of substantive law, is grounded in the concepts of good faith and equity.
boundary by acquiescence
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nonacquiescence
Administrative law. An agency's policy of declining to be bound by lower-court precedent that is contrary to the agency's interpretation of its organic statute, but only until the Supreme Court has ruled on the issue."Too much nonacquiescence, however, would interfere with the courts ability to prevent an agency from violating its statutory mandate. The practice is generally upheld, but is considered questionable when an agency adheres to its legal position in a case that could only be reviewed in a circuit that has already rejected