Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
anomalous jurisdiction
1. Jurisdiction that is not granted to a court by statute, but that is inherent in the court's authority to govern lawyers and other officers of the court, such as the power to issue a preindictment order suppressing illegally seized property. 2. An appellate court's provisional jurisdiction to review the denial of a motion to intervene in a case, so that if the court finds that the denial was correct, then its jurisdiction disappears - and it must dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction - because an order denying a motion to intervene is not a final, appealable order. See ANOMALOUS-JURISDICTION RULE.
anomalous jurisdiction rule
the principle that a court of appeals has provisional jurisdiction to review the denial of a motion to intervene in a case, and if the court of appeals finds that the denial was correct, then its jurisdiction disappears - and it must dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction -because an order denying a motion to intervene is not a final, appealable order. ( this rule has been criticized by courts and commentators. many appellate courts, upon finding that the trial court properly denied a motion to intervene, will affirm the denial instead of dismissing the appeal for want of jurisdiction. - also termed anomalous rule.