Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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emergency doctrine
1. A legal principle exempting a person from the ordinary standard of reasonable care if that person acted instinctively to meet a sudden and urgent need for aid. -Also termed imminent-peril doctrine; suddenemergency doctrine; sudden peril doctrine. 2. A legal principle by which consent to medical treatment in a dire situation is inferred when neither the patient nor a responsible party can consent but a reasonable person would do so. - Also termed (in sense 2) emergencytreatment doctrine. Cf. GOOD SAMARITAN DOCTRINE; RESCUE DOCTRINE.
sudden-emergency doctrine
See EMERGENCY DOCTRINE (1).