Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

corrupt-practices act

A federal or state statute that regulates campaign contributions and expenditures as well as their disclosure. "Corruption of blood is, when any one is attainted of felony or treason, then his blood is said to be corrupt; by means whereof neither his children, nor any of his blood, can be heirs to him, or to any other ancestor, for that they ought to claim by him. And if he were a noble or gentleman before, he and all his children are made thereby ignoble and ungentle . . . ." Termes de la Ley 125 (1st Am. ed. 1812).