Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.

agency by operation of law

see agency by estoppel under agency (1).

by operation of law

See OPERATION OF LAW.

suretyship by operation of law

A suretyship that the law creates when a third party promises a debtor to assume and pay the debt that the debtor owes to a creditor.

surrender by operation of law

An act that is an equivalent to an agreement by a tenant to abandon property and the landlord to resume possession, as when the parties perform an act so inconsistent with the landlord-tenant relationship that surrender is presumed, or when a tenant performs some act that would not be valid if the estate continued to exist. .