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Explore judicial definitions, legal maxims, and expressions cited in Pakistani case law.
1988 CLC 1652 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH:
Word "shall" would be interchangeable with word "may" — Where context of the relevant provisions of a statute demand, word "shall" could be construed as "may" and vice versa — Court always would lean to interpretation of a provision of a statute which may pres...
Aalim
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1991 MLD 2658 SUPREME-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR:
Words and Phrases — Word "Aalim" or "Shaikh" — Connotation.
Abate
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2001 SCMR 328 SUPREME-COURT:
Words and Phrases — Abate" — Meaning.
2001 PLC(CS) 346 SUPREME-COURT:
Words and Phrases — "Abate" — Meaning. Black's Law Dictionary, VIth Edn., p. 4, Col. 1 ref.
1990 PLD 21 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT:
— "Abate" — Meaning.
Abatement
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2001 SCMR 328 SUPREME-COURT:
Words and Phrases — "Abatement" — Meaning.
2001 PLC(CS) 346 SUPREME-COURT:
Words and Phrases — "Abatement" — Meaning.
2000 SCMR 1969 SUPREME-COURT:
Abetment" — Meanings.
1976 PLD 1133 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH:
"Abatement"-Meaning.
Abet
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2000 SCMR 1969 SUPREME-COURT:
Words and Phrases Abet" — Meanings.
Abeyance
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2003 PLC(CS) 439 SUPREME-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR:
Words and Phrases — 'Abeyance', meaning, connotation and scope.
2002 PLD 853 SUPREME-COURT:
Words and Phrases — "Abeyance" — Meaning — Expression "abeyance" means status of suspension or dormant condition.
Abolish
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1997 SCMR 117 SUPREME-COURT:
Words and Phrases — Word "abolish " — Meaning.
Abscond
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1989 PLD 10 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT:
Words and Phrases — " Abscond" — Meaning. — Abscond means: (1) "to hide, withdraw, or be concealed", (2) "to depart clandestinely, to steal off and secret one's self". It also means "hidden; concealed; secluded". Its etymological and ordinary sense is "to hide ones...
Absolute Title
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2002 CLD 1071 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE:
Words and Phrases — "Absolute title" — -Meaning.
Absorption
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2002 PLC(CS) 526 SUPREME-COURT:
— Terms "reinstatement" are "absorption" are synonymous expressions.
Accept
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1990 CLC 497 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH:
Words and Phrases Word "accept" — Meaning — Word "accept" when used as a verb also means "to admit as satisfactory".
Accident
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1990 PLC 743 LABOUR-APPELLANT-TRIBUNAL-PUNJAB:
Words and Phrases — Words "accident" and "employment injury" — Meanings.
Accommodation
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1997 PLD 315 SUPREME-COURT:
Words and Phrases "Accommodation'' Connotation.
Accused Person
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1979 PCRLJ 1078 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE:
Words and Phrases — Accused", "offence" and "case"-Connotation. It cannot be argued that the words "accused", "offence" and "case" have been used to connote the same meaning. The word "case" or "offence" has certainly much wider concept or connotation than ...
Acknowledgement
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2004 YLR 690 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE:
— "Acknowledgement " — Meaning.
Acquiescence
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2004 CLD 171 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH:
— "Acquiescence" — Meaning.
2001 PLD 194 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE:
Words and Phrases — "Acquiescence" — Meaning.
2001 PCRLJ 1465 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE:
— Ss. 21(a) & 22 [as substituted by Agricultural Pesticides (Amendment) Act (XXXIX of 1997)] — Cri...
Acquittal
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1998 PLC(CS) 1430 SUPREME-COURT:
Words and Phrases — Word "acquittal " — Connotation.
1998 SCMR 1993 SUPREME-COURT:
Words and Phrases — Word "acquittal " — Connotation. Abdul Kadir Khattak, Advocate Supreme Court with Muhammad Zahoor Qureshi Azad, Advocate-on-Record for Appellant.
1988 PCRLJ...
1992 CLC 729 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH:
Words and Phrases Expressions "act done under the Ordinance" — Connotation of.
Act of State
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1989 CLC 129 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE:
Words and Phrases — "Act of State", connotation of.
1973 PLD 563 SUPREME-COURT:
"Acts of State"-Meaning in its wider sense.
Act of terrorism
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1998 PCRLJ 1299 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH:
Words and Phrases — Act of terrorism" — Connotation — "Act of terrorism" would cover actions which caused or were calculated to cause alarm, fright, dread, panic, horror and fearfulness etc. — Car snatching at gun point was covered by such definition of ter...
Acted
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2003 CLC 240 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE:
— "Acted illegally" and "acted with material irregularity", meaning of — Term "acted illegally" would mean acting in breach of some provision of law and words 'acted with material irregularity" would refer to committing of some error of procedure in the cours...
Acted Illegally
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2003 CLC 240 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE:
Words and Phrases — "Acted illegally" and "acted with material irregularity", meaning of — Term "acted illegally" would mean acting in breach of some provision of law and words 'acted with material irregularity" would refer to committing of some error of proc...
2003 MLD 1120 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE:
— "Acted with material irregularity" — Meaning.
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Action
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1990 PLC 218 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT:
— Ss. 10 & 13 — Words and phrases — Word "action" — Connotation — Provisions of S. 10 though contemplate the Registrar as the person on whose complaint the Labour Court can cancel the registration of a trade union, yet under S. 13(b), it also falls within the power...
Actionable Claim
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2002 YLR 1061 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE:
— "Actionable claim " — Meaning — Actionable claim is one which is constituent fact which leads to the perfection of the right.
Additional Commisioner
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1992 CLC 629 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE:
"Commissioner" and "Additional Commissioner" — Distinction of the two terms/offices elaborated.
Additional Evidence
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1999 YLR 144 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE:
Words and Phrases — "Additional evidence " — Meaning — Words "additional" connotes that something is to be added or supplemented meaning thereby that some statement is to be got recorded in addition to or as supplement to the evidence already recorded.
Adequate remedy
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1990 CLC 1693 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT:
Words and Phrases Term "proceedings" — Meaning, scope and import of — Term "proceedings" is a very comprehensive term, and generally speaking, means a prescribed course of action for enforcing a legal right and hence it necessarily embraces requisite steps by which...
Adhalpi
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2002 YLR 3357 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE:
— "Adhalpi " — Connotation.
Adjudged
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2004 YLR 585 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE:
— 'Adjudged', meaning and scope — Person could only be said to have been 'adjudged' provided he had undergone the rigours of a trial before a Court of competent jurisdiction and some verdict was given by the Court in a judicial proceeding.
2002 CLC 1925 PESH...
Adjudicate
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2004 PTD 1388 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE:
— "Adjudicate" — Connotation — To adjudicate, necessarily implies settling a matter — Word `adjudicate' is synonymous with the word `adjudge' — Adjudicatory process may be before an administrative authority or before a Court of law — Even if it is before an a...
Adjust
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1994 PTD 717 INCOME-TAX-APPELLATE-TRIBUNAL-PAKISTAN:
— Words "adjust" and "adjustment" — Meaning.
1980 PTD 30 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH:
— S. 18-A (4)-Words and phrases-"Adjust"-Meaning.
Adjustment
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2001 PTD 1043 INCOME-TAX-APPELLATE-TRIBUNAL-PAKISTAN:
Words and Phrases — "Adjustment" — Meaning
1994 PTD 717 INCOME-TAX-APPELLATE-TRIBUNAL-PAKISTAN:
— Words "adjust" and "adjustment" — Meaning.
1987 PTD 28 INCOME-TAX-APPELLATE-TRIBUNAL-PAKISTAN:
— "Adjustment" used in Circular No. 18, para....
Administration
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1993 PLD 1 SUPREME-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR:
Words and Phrases — "Administration" — Meaning and scope.
1986 CLC 2229 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH:
Words and Phrases "Purpose connected with" — Meaning.
1986 PLC 899 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH:
Words and Phrases — Word "administration", meaning of — Meaning...
Admission
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1988 PLD 393 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH:
"Admission" — Meaning of — Ordinary meaning is "an acknowledgement" and "an act of conceding"
Adoption
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2003 PLD 270 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH:
— "Adoption" — Definition.
Advertisement
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2000 PTD 3454 CALCUTTA-HIGH-COURT-INDIA:
Words and Phrases — Advertisement" — Meaning of.
Advocate
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1995 PLC(CS) 559 LABOUR-APPELLANT-TRIBUNAL-SINDH:
Words and Phrases — Term "Advocate" — Meanings explained.
Advocate-General
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2001 PLD 80 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT:
Words and Phrases — "Advocate-General" and "Prosecutor-General" — Distinction — Advocate-General and Prosecutor-General are not synonymous by any stretch of interpretation — Job of a Prosecutor is to achieve success in the shape of conviction while that of State rep...
Affair
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2001 PLC(CS) 111 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE:
Words and Phrases Affair" — Meaning. Concise Oxford Dictionary ref.
Affected
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2000 MLD 1581 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE:
Words and Phrases — "Affected" — Connotation.
Agent
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1994 CLC 1516 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH:
Words and Phrases "Aggregate" — Meaning of — Aggregate" means a collection of things in order to form a whole.
1992 MLD 2536 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT:
Words and Phrases — "Agent" includes a counsel.
1988 CLC 1381 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH:
Words and Phrases — ...
Aggrieved Person
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2005 CLD 264 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH:
— " Aggrieved person" — Meaning — Such expression means a person, who has got a legal grievance i.e. a person, who is deprived of anything to which he is legally entitled and not merely a person, who suffered some sort of disappointment.
2003 MLD 90 LAHORE-H...
Agitate
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2004 PLC(CS) 688 SERVICE-TRIBUNAL-PUNJAB:
— 'Instigate', 'agitate' and 'instigation' — Meanings explained.
Agnate
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1980 CLC 1863 SUPREME-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR:
— Word 'Agnate'-Meaning-Agnate means a 'person whose relation to vendor can be traced without intervention of female links'. — [Words and phrases].
Aid and abet
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2000 SCMR 1969 SUPREME-COURT:
"Aid and abet" — Meanings.
Aiding
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2000 SCMR 1969 SUPREME-COURT:
"Aiding" — Meanings.
All disputes
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1982 CLC 1039 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH:
"All disputes" or "all claims"-Connotation.
All rent due
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2002 YLR 1841 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE:
— Principle — An act or omission of a Court is not to prejudice the case of any party.
1988 PLD 42 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN:
"All rent due" with reference to West Pakistan Urban Rent Restriction Ordinance, 1959, would mean any amount legally recoverabl...