Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
rectification
1. A court's equitable correction of a contractual term that is misstated; the judicial alteration of a written contract to make it conform to the true intention of the parties when, in its original form, it did not reflect this intention. ( As an equitable remedy, the court alters the terms as written so as to express the true intention of the parties. The court might do this when the rent is wrongly recorded in a lease or when the area of land is incorrectly cited in a deed. 2. A court's slight modification of words of a statute as a means of carrying out what the court is convinced must have been the legislative in tent. a For example, courts engage in rectification when they read and as or or shall as may .as they frequently must do because of unfastidious drafting. - rectify, ub. See REFORMATION.
rectification of boundaries
.. An action to determine or correct the boundaries between two adjoining pieces of land.
rectification of register
Hist. A process by which a person whose name was wrongly entered in or omitted from a record can compel the recorder to correct the error.