Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
class action
A lawsuit in which a single person or a small group of people represent the interests of a larger group. ( Federal procedure has several requirements for maintaining a class action: (1) the class must be so large that individual suits would be impracticable, (2) there must be legal or factual questions common to the class, (3) the claims or defenses of the representative parties must be typical of those of the class, and (4) the representative parties must adequately protect the interests of the class. Fed. R. Civ. P. 23. - Also termed class suit; representative action.
class action.
See CLASS ACTION.
class representative. A person who sues on behalf of a group of plaintiffs in a class action. - Also termed named plaintiff
See CLASS ACTION.
hybrid class action
A type of action in which the rights to be enforced are several and varied, but the object is to adjudicate claims that do or may affect the specific property in the action.
hybrid class action.
See CLASS ACTION.
spurious class action
See CLASS ACTION.