Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Lex est sanctio sancta, jubens honesta et prohibens contraria
Law is a sacred sanction, commanding what is right and prohibiting the contrary.
Sanction
vb. 1. To approve, authorize, or support <the court will sanction the trust disposition if it is not against public policy>. 2. To penalize by imposing a sanction <the court sanctioned the attorney for violating the gag order >.
Sanctionable
adj. (Of conduct or action) meriting sanctions; likely to be sanctioned. sanctioning right See secondary right under RIGHT.
criminal sanction
A sanction attached to a criminal conviction, such as a fine or restitution. - Also termed penal sanction. A criminal sanction ... is a legally authorized postconviction deprivation suffered by a human being through governmental action. By using the words 'postconviction' in that definition, criminal sanctions are thus limited to those imposed upon defendants in criminal proceedings who, by reason or in consequence of a judgment entered upon a verdict of guilty found by a jury, or judge sitting without a jury (the latter having been legally waived), or upon a plea of guilty, or a plea of nolo contendere, stand convicted." A Treatise on the Law of Crimes ยง 2.00, at 66 (Marian Quinn Barnes ed., 7th ed. 1967).
death penalty sanction. Civil procedure.
A court's order dismissing the suit or entering a default judgment in favor of the plaintiff because of extreme discovery abuses by a party or because of a party's action or inaction that shows an unwillingness to participate in the case. ( Such a sanction is rarely ordered, and is usu. preceded by orders of lesser sanctions that have not been complied with or that have not remedied the problem.
death-penalty sanction
See SANCTION.
penal sanction
See criminal sanction under SANCTION.
sanctio
[Latin fr. sancio "to ordain, confirm, or forbid under penalty"] Roman law. A particular clause in a statute imposing a penalty on any violation of that statute. ( Despite its appearance, this term does not derive from the Latin sanctus, meaning "holy." "Sanctio (legis). A clause in a statute which strengthens its efficacity by fixing a penalty for its violation, by forbidding its derogation through a later enactment, or by releasing from responsibility any one who by acting in accordance with the statute violated another law. The purpose of the sanction clause was to settle the relation between the new statute and former and future legislation. Thus the sanctio could also state that a previous statute remained fully or partially in force without being changed by the new one." Adolf Berger, Encyclopedic Dictionary of Roman Law 689 (1953).
sanction
n. 1. Official approval or authorization <the committee gave sanction to the proposal>. 2. A penalty or coercive measure that results from failure to comply with a law, rule, or order <a sanction for discovery abuse>.
sanctional enforcement.
See secondary right under RIGHT.
sanctions tort
A means of recovery for another party's discovery abuse, whereby the judge orders the abusive party to pay a fine to the injured party for the discovery violation. ( This is not a tort in the traditional sense, but rather a form of punishment that results in monetary gain for the injured party.
shame sanction
See SANCTION.
shame sanction.
A criminal sanction designed to stigmatize or disgrace a convicted offender, and often to alert the public about the offender's conviction. 0 A shame sanction usu. publicly associates the offender with the crime that he or she committed. An example is being required to post a sign in one's yard stating, "Convicted Child Molester Lives Here." - Also termed shame sentence; shaming sanction; shaming sentence; scarlet-letter punishment; scarlet-letter sentence. 3. Int'l law. An economic or military coercive measure taken by one or more countries toward another to force it to comply with international law <U.N. sanctions against a renegade nation>.