Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Casus omissus et oblivioni datus dispositions communis juris relinquitur
A case omitted and forgotten (not provided for in statute) is left to the disposal of the common law.
Predisposition
A person's inclination to engage in a particular activity; esp., an inclination that vitiates a criminal defendant's claim of entrapment.
ambulatory disposition
see disposition.
conversion by wrongful disposition
Conversion by depriving an owner of goods by giving some other person a lawful title to them.
disposition
n. 1. The act of transferring something to another's care or possession, esp. by deed or will; the relinquishing of property <a testamentary disposition of all the assets>. 2. A final settlement or determination <the court's disposition of the case>.
disposition hearing
A hearing held to determine the most appropriate form of custody or treatment for a juvenile who has been found at an adjudicatory hearing to be a juvenile delinquent or a status offender. Cf. adjudicatory hearing; detention hearing.
disposition without a trial
The disposal of a criminal case without a trial on the merits, as when a defendant pleads guilty or admits sufficient facts to support a guilty finding without a trial.
summary disposition
See SUMMARY JUDGMENT.