Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

logical-relationship standard

Civil procedure. A test applied to determine whether a defendant's counterclaim is compulsory, by examining whether both claims are based on the same operative facts or whether those facts activate additional rights, otherwise dormant, for the defendant. ( One of the most important factors considered is whether hearing the claims together would promote judicial economy and efficiency. Fed. R. Civ. P. 13(a). "[U]nder the fourth test - frequently referred to as the