Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
account party.
The customer in a letter-ofcredit transaction. - Also termed applicant. account payable. See ACCOUNT. account receivable. See ACCOUNT. account render. See ACCOUNTING (3).
act of the party.
See act in the law under ACT (2).
aggrieved party.
see party (2).
formal party.
See nominal party under PARTY (2).
indispensable party.
See PARTY (2).
innocent party.
See PARTY
nominal party.
A party who, having some interest in the subject matter of a lawsuit, will not be affected by any judgment but is nonetheless joined in the lawsuit to avoid procedural defects. ( An example is the disinterested stakeholder in a garnishment action. - Also termed formal party. Cf. real party in interest.
outside party.
See THIRD PARTY.
party.
1. One who takes part in a transaction <a party to the contract>. "Note, that if an Indenture be made between two as Parties thereto in the Beginning, and in the Deed one of them grants or lets a Thing to another who is not named in the Beginning, he is not Party to the Deed, nor shall take any Thing thereby." John Rastell, Les Termes de la Ley 471 (26th ed. 1721)."A person who takes part in a legal transaction or proceeding is said to be a party to it. Thus, if an agreement, conveyance, lease, or the like, is entered into between A. and B., they are said to be parties to it; and the same expression is often, though not very correctly, applied to the persons named as the grantors or releasors in a deed-poll." 2 Stewart Rapalje & Robert L. Lawrence, A Dictionary of American and English Law 930 (1883).
prevailing party.
A party in whose favor a judgment is rendered, regardless of the amount of damages awarded <in certain cases, the court will award attorney's fees to the prevailing party>. - Also termed successful party.
proper party.
A party who may be joined in a case for reasons of judicial economy but whose presence is not essential to the proceeding. See permissive joinder under dOINDER.
successful party.
See prevailing party.
third party.
See THIRD PARTY.