Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Unreasonable
adj. 1. Not guided by reason; irrational or capricious. 2. Not supported by a valid exception to the warrant requirement <unreasonable search and seizure>. unreasonable compensation See COMPENSATION.
beyond a reasonable doubt.
See REASONABLE DOUBT.
commercially reasonable
adj. (Of a property sale) conducted in good faith and in accordance with commonly accepted commercial practice. Under the UCC, a sale of collateral by a secured party must be done in a commercially reasonable manner, or the sale may be rescinded. UCC ยง 9-504.
doubt, reasonable
See REASONABLE DOUBT.
fair and reasonable value
See fair market value under VALUE.
proof beyond a reasonable doubt
Proof that precludes every reasonable hypothesis except that which it tends to support.
reasonable
adj. 1. Fair, proper, or moderate under the circumstances <reasonable pay>. 2. According to reason <your argument is reasonable but not convincing>.
reasonable accommodation
1. An action taken to adapt or adjust for a disabled person, done in a way that does not impose an undue hardship on the party taking the action. Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, an employer must make reasonable accommodations for an employee's disability. Examples of reasonable accommodations that have been approved by the courts include providing additional unpaid leave, modifying the employee's work schedule, and reassigning the employee to a vacant position. 2. An action taken to adapt or adjust for an employee's religious need or practice, done in a way that does not impose an undue hardship on the employer.
reasonable care
As a test of liability for negligence, the degree of care that a prudent and competent person engaged in the same line of business or endeavor would exercise under similar circumstances. - Also termed due care; ordinary care; adequate care; proper care. See REASONABLE PERSON.
reasonable cause
See PROBABLE CAUSE.
reasonable diligence
See due diligence (1) under DILIGENCE.
reasonable diligence.
1. A fair degree of diligence expected from someone of ordinary prudence under circumstances like those at issue. 2. See due diligence (1).
reasonable doubt
The doubt that prevents one from being firmly convinced of a defendant's guilt, or the belief that there is a real possibility that a defendant is not guilty. ( "Beyond a reasonable doubt" is the standard used by a jury to determine whether a criminal defendant is guilty. In deciding whether guilt has been proved beyond a reasonable doubt, the jury must begin with the presumption that the defendant is innocent. See BURDEN OF PERSUASION.
reasonable force
See FORCE.
reasonable grounds
See PROBABLE CAUSE.
reasonable man
See REASONABLE PERSON,
reasonable medical probability
In proving the cause of an injury, a standard requiring a showing that the injury was more likely than not caused by a particular stimulus, based on the general consensus of recognized medical thought. - Also termed reasonable medical certainty.
reasonable notice
Notice that is fairly to be expected or required under the particular circumstances.
reasonable person
1. A hypothetical person used as a legal standard, esp. to determine whether someone acted with negligence. ( The reasonable person acts sensibly, does things without serious delay, and takes proper but not excessive precautions. - Also termed reasonable man; prudent person; ordinarily prudent person; reasonably prudent person. See reasonable care under CARE.
reasonable royalty
A royalty that a licensee would be willing to pay the inventor while still making a reasonable profit from use of the patented invention. 2. A share of the product or profit from real property, reserved by the grantor of a mineral lease, in exchange for the lessee's right to mine or drill on the land. - Also termed (in sense 2) override.
reasonable suspicion
A particularized and objective basis, supported by specific and articulable facts, for suspecting a person of criminal activity. ( A police officer must have a reasonable suspicion to stop a person in a public place. See STOP AND FRISK. Cf. PROBABLE CAUSE.
reasonable time
1. Contracts. The time needed to do what a contract requires to be done, based on subjective circumstances. ( If the contracting parties do not fix a time for performance, the law will usu. presume a reasonable time. 2. Commercial law. The time during which the UCC permits a party to accept an offer, inspect goods, substitute conforming goods for rejected goods, and the like.
reasonable use
Use of one's property for an appropriate purpose that does not unreasonably interfere with another's use of property. See REASONABLE-USE THEORY.
reasonable-expectation doctrine
Insurance. The rule that resolves an insurance-policy ambiguity in favor of the insured's reasonable expectations.
reasonable-inference rule
An evidentiary principle providing that a jury, in deciding a case, may properly consider any reasonable inference drawn from the evidence presented at trial.
reasonable-use theory
Property. The principle that owners of riparian land may make reasonable use of their water if this use does not affect the water available to lower riparian owners.
treasonable misdemeanor
See TREASONABLE MISDEMEANOR. 2. Archaic. Any crime, including a felony. "A crime, or misdemeanor, is an act committed, or omitted, in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it. This general definition comprehends both crimes and misdemeanors; which, properly speaking, are mere synonymous terms: though, in common usage, the word, 'crimes,' is made to denote such offences as are of a deeper and more atrocious dye; while smaller faults, and omissions of less consequence, are comprised under the gentler names of 'misdemeanors' only." 4 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 5 (1769).
unreasonable compensation
Under the Internal Revenue Code, pay that is out of proportion to the actual services rendered and is therefore not deductible.
unreasonable decision
An administrative agency's decision that is so obviously wrong that there can be no difference of opinion among reasonable minds about its erroneous nature.
unreasonable refusal to submit to operation
Workers' compensation. An injured employee's refusal to submit to a necessary surgical procedure. ( This refusal is grounds for terminating the employee's workers'-compensation benefits.
unreasonable restraint of trade
A restraint of trade that produces a significant anticompetitive effect and thus violates antitrust law.
unreasonable restraint on alienation
See RESTRAINT ON ALIENATION (1).
unreasonable search
A search conducted without probable cause or other considerations that would make it legally permissible. - Also termed illegal search.