Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Recognition
n. 1. Confirmation that an act done by another person was authorized. See RATIFICATION. 2. The formal admission that a person, entity, or thing has a particular status; esp., a nation's act in formally acknowledging the existence of another nation or national government. 3. Tax. The act or an instance of accounting for a taxpayer's realized gain or loss for the purpose of income-tax reporting. Cf. NONRECOGNITION PROVISION; REALIZATION (2). 4. An employer's acknowledgment that a union has the right to act as a bargaining agent for employees. 5. Int'1 law. Official action by a country acknowledging, expressly or by implication, de jure or de facto, the legality of the existence of a government, a country, or a situation such as a change of territorial sovereignty. 6. See RULE OF RECOGNITION. - recognize, ub.
Uniform Divorce Recognition Act
A uniform code adopted by some states regarding fullfaith-and-credit issues that arise in divorces.
certificando de recognitione stapulae
[Law Latin "by certifying the recognition of the statute staple"] Hist. A writ commanding the holder of certain commercial debt instruments (i.e., the mayor of the staple) to certify to the lord chancellor the existence and terms of a statute staple (i.e., a bond for com-mercial debt) wrongfully detained by a party to the bond. See STATUTE STAPLE.
cognition
n. 1. Relationship by blood rather than by marriage; relationship arising through common descent from the same man and woman, whether the descent is traced through males or females. Cognition' is . . . a relative term, and the degree of connexion in blood which it indicates depends on the particular marriage which is selected as the commencement of the calculation." Henry S. Maine, Ancient Law 122 (17th ed. 1901).2. Civil law. A relationship existing between two people by blood, by family, or by both.
cognitionibus mittendis
[Latin "cognizance of pleas to be released"] Hist. A writ ordering a justice of the Common Pleas to certify a fine that the justice had imposed but refused to certify.
decreet cognitionis causa
n. Scots law. A judgment in a suit involving a plaintiff creditor suing a debtor's heir to attach the heir's lands.
literae recognitionis
n. [Latin] Hist. A bill of lading. See BILL OF LADING.
nonrecognition provision
Tax. A statutory rule that allows all or part of a realized gain or loss not to be recognized for tax purposes. e Generally, this type of provision only postpones the recognition of the gain or loss. See RECOGNITION (3).
nonrecognition.
Int'L law. The refusal of one government to recognize the legitimacy of another government.
recognition clause. Real estate
A clause providing that, when a tract of land has been subdivided for development, the ultimate buyers of individual lots are protected if the developer defaults on the mortgage. ( Such a clause is typically found in a blanket mortgage or a contract for deed.
recognition picketing.
See PICKETING
recognition strike
A strike by workers seeking to force their employer to acknowledge the union as their collective-bargaining agent. ( After the National Labor Relations Act was passed in 1935, recognition strikes became unnecessary. Under the Act, the employer is required to recognize an NLRBcertified union for bargaining purposes. -Also termed organizational strike.
recognition strike.
See STRIKE,
rule of recognition
In the legal theory of H.L.A. Hart, a legal system's fundamental rule, by which all other rules are identified and understood. ( In The Concept of Law (1961), Hart contends that a society's legal system is centered on rules. There are primary rules of obligation, which prescribe how a person should act in society, and secondary rules, by which the primary rules are created, identified, changed, and understood. A "rule of recognition" is a secondary rule, and serves to instruct citizens on when a pronouncement or societal principle constitutes a rule of obligation. Cf RULES OF CHANGE; basic norm under NORM.