Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
nonsovereign state
A state that is a constituent part of a greater state that includes both it and one or more others, and to whose government it is subject; a state that is not complete and self-existent. - Also termed dependent state.
part-sovereign state
A political community in which part of the powers of external sovereignty are exercised by the home government, and part are vested in or controlled by some other political body or bodies. 9 Such a state is not fully independent because by the conditions of its existence it is not allowed full freedom of action in external affairs.
sovereign state
See SOVEREIGN STATE.