Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Circuity of action is, when an action is rightfully brought for a duty, but yet about the bush, as it were, for that it might as well have been otherwise answered and determined, and the suit saved: a
answer
ub. 1. to respond to a pleading or a discovery request <the company failed to answer the interrogatories within 30 days>. 2. to assume the liability of another <a guarantor answers for another person's debt>. 3. to pay (a debt or other liability) <she chose to promise to answer damages out of her own estate>.
answer date
see answer day under day.
answer day
The last day for a defendant to file and serve a responsive pleading in a lawsuit. ( Under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, a defendant generally must serve an answer (1) within 20 days after being served with the summons and complaint, or (2) if a defendant timely waives service at the plaintiffs request, within 60 days after the request for waiver was sent. Fed. R. Civ. P. 4(d), 12(a). - Also termed answer date; appearance date; appearance day.
evasive answer
A response that neither directly admits nor denies a question. ( In pleading, this is considered a failure to answer. Fed. R. Civ. P. 37(3).
false answer
A sham answer in a pleading. See sham pleading under PLEADING.
no-answer default judgment
A judgment for the plaintiff entered after the defendant fails to timely answer or otherwise appear.
post-answer default judgment
A judgment for the plaintiff entered after the defendant files an answer, but fails to appear at trial or otherwise provide a defense on the merits.
question-and-answer
1. The portion of a deposition or trial transcript in which evidence is developed through a series of questions asked by the lawyer and answered by the witness. -Abbr. Q-and-A. 2. The method for developing evidence during a deposition or at trial, requiring the witness to answer the examining lawyer's questions, without offering unsolicited information. 3. The method of instruction used in many law-school classes, in which the professor asks questions of one or more students and then follows up each answer with another question. - Also termed Socratic method. See SOCRATIC METHOD.
unresponsive answer
Evidence. A response from a witness (usu. at a deposition or hearing) that is irrelevant to the question asked.