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1960 PLD 1073 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE Judicial Precedent

State -Acts of, relating to Municipal law-Subject to jurisdiction of Courts-[Eshughayi Eleko v. Officer Administering the Government of Nigeria and another A I R 1931 P C 248 and Wade's Constitutional Law ref.].

1957 PLD 345 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE Judicial Precedent
State

Whether owner of all property not proved to belong to any person.

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Precedents & Case Laws citing "State"

PLD 1997
President's Reference No. 1 of 1996, decided on 19th March, 1997.

P L D 1997 Supreme Court (AJ&K) 1

Court: ‑‑‑‑S. 2‑‑‑Azad Jammu and Kashmir State Subject Act, 1980, S.9‑‑‑Azad Jammu and Kashmir State Subject Rules, 1980, R.5‑‑‑Jammu and Kashmir Alienation of Land Act, 1995 (B.K.), S.4‑‑‑Sir Partap Jammu and Kashmir Laws (Consolidation) Act, 1977 (B.K.), S.4‑‑‑State Subject ‑‑‑Status‑‑‑Woman‑‑ Inheritance‑‑‑If immovable property devolves on a State Subject woman who has left the State after her marriage with non‑State Subject, it will be her lawful property and there is nothing to deprive her from her share in inheritance. ‑‑Muhammadan Law.
MLD 1996
Writ Petition No. 153 of 1995, decided on 15th January, 1996.

1996 M L D 1377

Syed ABBAS HAIDER GILANI‑‑‑Petitioner Versus AZAD KASHMIR UNIVERSITY through Vice‑Chancellor

Court: Supreme Court (AJ&K)
PLD 2001
Writ Petitions Nos.546 and 547 of 2000, decided on 16th March, 2001.

P L D 2001 Azad J&K 33

ALI ASGHAR ABBASI and others‑‑‑Petitioners Versus AZAD JAMMU AND KASHMIR COUNCIL through

Court:
PLD 1968
Civil Suit No. 115 of 1966, decided on 22nd January, 1968.

P L D 1968 Karachi 443

A. M. QUERSHI‑Plaintiff Versus UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS Through

Court: (c) Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), Ss. 84 to 87‑Bar con tained in S. 86 applies not only to foreign Rulers, ambassadors and envoys but to foreign State itself ‑ Provisions of Ss. 34 :0 87 supersede rules of International Law‑Suit against foreign State not maintainable without consent of Central Government‑Gammon‑Layton v. Secretary of State, U. S. A. P L U 1965 Kar. 425 dissented from.
YLR 2005
Criminal Bail Application No.S-455 of 2004, decided on 10th September, 2004.

2005 Y L R 1531

NABI BUX alias NABU — Applicant Versus THE STATE — Respondent

Court: Karachi
PLD 2025
2024-September-27

P L D 2025 Islamabad 1

The STATE OF LIBYA through Head of Mission in Pakistan — Petitioner Versus CIVIL JUDGE (WEST), ISLAMABAD and 2 others — Respondents

Court: High Court
PLD 1993
Writ Petitions Nos.114 of 1991, 19 and 42 of 1992, decided on 16th August, 1993.

P L D 1993 Azad J & K 153

GHULAM HUSSAIN and 2 others‑‑‑Petitioners Versus FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN through Director‑General, ISI Islamabad and 20 others‑‑Respondents

Court: ‑‑‑‑Ss. 2 & 4‑‑‑Foreigners Act (XXXI of 1946), S.2(a) as adapted in Azad Jammu and Kashmir through Azad Jammu and Kashmir Adaption of Laws Act (I of 1959), S.3‑‑‑State subject holding Indian or Pakistan passport whether loses his status of being a State subject and becomes a foreigner by holding a passport of any of the two countries‑‑‑Being a State subject is a status, not a nationality, stricto senso, under the contemporary circumstances and such status was not lost by a State subject by possessing passport of any country much less of India and Pakistan, who are in de facto control of different parts of the State of Jammu and Kashmir‑‑‑State subjects living in either part of the State have no means of travelling around the world except through passport of the country where part of their territory actually falls, without prejudice to their status of being State subjects‑‑‑Passport, thus, would not determine nationality of the State subject, but a document which would legalize his international travel, without affecting his status of being State subject‑‑‑Passport could not even be treated as a proof of the nationality of a person whose residence admittedly falls in the settled territories forming part of India or Pakistan‑‑‑State subject could not be deprived of his right to reside and settle in any part of the State as guaranteed by the Interim Constitution subject to reasonable restrictions‑‑‑Resident of Indian‑held Kashmir is as good a State subject as one residing in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, as none of the two parts of the State is a foreign territory for the other‑‑‑State subject would need‑ no certificate of his being a State subject from Ministry of Interior, Government of Pakistan, as the subject related to Azad Jammu and Kashmir Council which being a part of Azad Jammu and Kashmir State would be subject to jurisdiction of Azad Kashmir Courts in all respects.
PTD 1960
Writ Petition No. 400 of 1957 and Civil Miscellaneous Petition No. 5527 of 1959, decided on 1st December, 1959.

1960 P T D 599

P. ABDUL SUBHAN & Co. Versus THE STATE OF MADRAS AND ANOTHER

Court: Madras (India)
YLR 2004
Criminal Miscellaneous No.160/B of 2004/BWP, decided on 23th April, 2004.

2004 Y L R 2275

MAQBOOL AHMED — Petitioner Versus THE STATE through Bakht Ali — Respondent

Court: Lahore
PLD 1972
9th September 1971

P L D 1972 Karachi 105

MESSRS BOKHARA PALACE LTD.‑Plaintiff Versus BRIGADIER HIS HIGHNESS MUHAMMAD ABBAS KHAN ABBASI‑Defendant

Court: (a) Ruler (Recognition of Successors) Order P. O. No. 15 of 1960-----