Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
clerical misprision
See MISPRISION.
misprision
1. Concealment or nondisclosure of a serious crime by one who did not participate in the crime.
misprision o f treason
Concealment or nondisclosure of someone else's treason.
misprision of felony
Concealment or nondisclosure of someone else's felony. "In fact, whatever the law may be, it is not the general custom to prosecute for misprision of felony, even where a person who knows of a felony is questioned by the police and refuses to make a statement. Indeed, Stephen, writing in the nineteenth century, regarded the offence as 'practically obsolete'; and American courts have refused to recognise it as subsisting. But there have been four successful prosecutions in England during the last quarter-century ...." Glanville Williams, Criminal Law 424 (2d ed. 1961).
negative misprision
See MISPRISION.
positive misprision
The active commission of a wrongful act <seditious conduct against the government is positive misprision>.2. Seditious conduct against the government. 3. An official's failure to perform the duties of public office. 4. Misunderstanding; mistake.