Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
personal defense
An ordinary defense in a contract action - such as failure of consideration or nonperformance of a condition -that the maker or drawer of a negotiable instrument is precluded from raising against a person who has the rights of a holder in due course. ( A personal defense can be asserted only against a transferee who is not a holder in due course. - Also termed limited defense.