Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
death penalty
1 State-imposed death as punishment for a serious crime. - Also termed capital punishment. 2. A penalty that makes a person or entity ineligible to participate in an activity that the person or entity previously participated in. ( The penalty is usu. imposed because of some type of gross misconduct.
death penalty sanction. Civil procedure.
A court's order dismissing the suit or entering a default judgment in favor of the plaintiff because of extreme discovery abuses by a party or because of a party's action or inaction that shows an unwillingness to participate in the case. ( Such a sanction is rarely ordered, and is usu. preceded by orders of lesser sanctions that have not been complied with or that have not remedied the problem.