Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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collateral-order doctrine
A doctrine allowing appeal from an interlocutory order that conclusively determines an issue wholly separate from the merits of the action and effectively unreviewable on appeal from a final judgment. -Also termed Cohen doctrine (fr. Cohen u. Beneficial Indus. Loan Corp., 337 U.S. 541, 69 S.Ct. 1221 (19490. See appealable dccrsron under DECISION.