Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
jury nullification
A jury's knowing and deliberate rejection of the evidence or refusal to apply the law either because the jury wants to send a message about some social issue that is larger than the case itself or because the result dictated by law is contrary to the jury's sense of justice, morality, or fairness.
nullification
n. 1. The act of making something void; specif., the action of a state in abrogating a federal law, on the basis of state sovereignty. See JURY NULLIFICATION. 2. The state or condition of being void. See JURY NULLIFICATION.
nullification doctrine
The theory - espoused by southern states before the Civil War -advocating a state's right to declare a federal law unconstitutional and therefore void. Nullify, ub. To make void; to render invalid.