Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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modus operandi

[Latin "a manner of operating"] A method of operating or a manner of procedure; esp., a pattern of criminal behavior so distinctive that investigators attribute it to the work of the same person < staging a fight at the train station was part of the pickpocket's modus operandi. - Abbr. M.O. Pl. modi operandi.