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Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.

Stacking

1. Insurance. The process of obtaining benefits from a second policy on the same claim when recovery from the first policy alone would be inadequate.

Tacking

1. The joining of consecutive periods of possession by different persons to treat the periods as one continuous period; esp., the adding of one's own period of land possession to that of a prior possessor to establish continuous adverse possession for the statutory period. See ADVERSE POSSESSION. 2. The joining of a junior lien with the first lien in order to acquire priority over an intermediate lien.

collateral attack

An attack on a judgment entered in a different proceeding. 0 A petition for a writ of habeas corpus is one type of collateral attack. - Also termed indirect attack. Cf. DIRECT ATTACK.

direct attack.

An attack on a judgment made in the same proceeding as the one in which the judgment was entered. 0 Examples of direct attacks are appeals and motions for new trial. Cf. COLLATERAL ATTACK.

facial attack

A challenge to the sufficiency of a complaint, such as a motion to dismiss in federal practice.

indirect attack.

See COLLATERAL ATTACK.

indiscriminate attack

Int'Z law. An aggressive act that (1) is not carried out for a specific military objective, (2) employs a means of combat not directed at a specific military objective, or (3) employs a means of combat the effects of which cannot be limited in accordance with an international protocol such as the Geneva Convention of 1949.

judicial stacking

The principle that a court can construe insurance policies to permit stacking, under certain circumstances, when the policies do not specifically provide for stacking but public policy is best served by permitting it.

policy stacking

See STACKING.

tack

ub. 1. To add (one's own period of land possession) to a prior possessor's period to establish continuous adverse possession for the statutory period. 2. To annex (a junior lien) to a first lien to acquire priority over an intermediate lien.