Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
day rule
See DAY WRIT.
ten-day rule
The doctrine that one who sells goods on credit and then learns that the buyer is insolvent has ten days after the buyer receives the goods to demand their return. ( The seller has even longer to demand return if the buyer has made a written representation of solvency to the seller within three months before delivery.
twelve-day rule
Criminal procedure. A rule in some jurisdictions requiring that a person charged with a felony be given a preliminary examination no later than 12 days after the arraignment on the original warrant.
year-and-a-day rule
Criminal law. The common-law principle that an act causing death is not homicide if the death occurs more than a year and a day after the act was committed. ( In Latin, the phrase year and a day was commonly rendered annus et dies.