Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
administrative deviation.
A trustee's unauthorized departure from the terms of the trust.
deviation
Marine insurance. 1. An unnecessary departure from the course fixed by express agreement, by maritime custom, or by the discretion of a reasonably careful and skillful navigator. 2. An unreasonable delay in pursuing this course.
deviation doctrine
1. A principle allowing variation from a term of a will or trust to avoid defeating the document's purpose. 2. A principle allowing an agent's activity to vary slightly from the scope of the principal's permission. 3. The rule that an insurance policy covering a ship's voyage is canceled if the ship deviates unreasonably from its course.
deviation-well survey
An examination to determine whether a well is bottomed under another person's land.
distributive deviation
A trustee's transfer of principal to the income beneficiaries when the income is inadequate to carry out the settlor's scheme of distribution, and without the permission of a remainderman who owns a future interest in the principal. 0 This practice is usu. impermissible except when life income beneficiaries need the money to buy necessaries.