Legal Definitions Glossary

any tag, brand, mark, pictorial or other descriptive matter, written, printed, stenciled, marked, painted, embossed or impressed on, or attached to or included in, belonging to, or accompanying any food

any tag, brand, mark whether pictorial or descriptive written, printed, stencilled, embossed, impressed on, or attached to or included in or belonging to or accompanying any food

“Labour Court” means the labour court established by the Government;

buildings and benefits arising out of land and things attached to the earth or permanently fastened to anything attached to the earth

the land which is being built up or is built up or is covered with water or is under cultivation or is fallow

any local authority or the Capital Development Authority created or established under any law for the time being in force by the Federal Government holding a land lawfully which can be sold to the public or a lawful owner of the land having authority over land under its jurisdiction to sell it, and has powers to give permission for development of such immovable property to a developer; "development" with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, means carrying out the development of immovable property, engineering or other operations in, on, over or under the land or the making of any material change in any immovable property or land and includes re-development

the owner of the premises and includes any person for the time being authorized or entitled to receive rent in respect of any building or rented land, whether on his own account or on behalf, or for the benefit, of any other person, or as a trustee, guardian or receiver, and or a tenant who, being authorized under the terms of his lease so to do, sublets the building and every other person for the time being deriving title from the landlord

directorate of law, Chief Commissioner's office, Islamabad Capital Territory

means directorate of law, Chief Commissioner ‘s office, Islamabad Capital Territory

a lease of immoveable property, and includes also- (a) a patta; (b) a kabuliyat or other undertaking in writing, not being a counter-part of a lease, to cultivate, occupy or pay or deliver rent for, immoveable property; (c) any instrument by which tolls of any description are let; (d) any writing on an application for a lease intended to signify that the application is granted

a counterpart, kabuliyat and an undertaking to cultivate or occupy

any person or entity, other than a natural person, that can do the things that any person can usually do in law, such as entering into contracts, sue or can be sued, own property and so on; (j) "natural person means an individual or individuals

a person who in law represents the estate of a deceased person, and includes any person who intermeddles with the estate of the deceased, and, where a party acts in representative character, the person on whom the estate devolves on the death of the party so acting

Lian means where the husband has accused his wife of zina and the wife does not accept the accusation as true.

a licence granted under the Act or the rules or the regulations

a licence issued by the Authority under this Act for the use of any premises as a healthcare establishment to deliver healthcare services and "licensed " and "licensing " shall be construed accordingly

a licence granted under this Act or the rules made there under, as may be notified by the Director Food Authority

a person to whom licence has been issued under this Act

a public company, body corporate or any other entity whose securities are listed on securities exchange

securities listed on the securities exchange

an advance whether of money or in kind, where the repayment is guaranteed on demand or after a specified period; (i) "Molest"- a person shall be deemed to molest another person if he,- (i) obstructs, or uses violence or criminal force to or criminally intimidates, such other person; (ii) interferes with any property owned or used by him or deprives him of, or hinders him in the use of any such property; and (iii) does any act calculated to intimidate the members of the family or such other person

the Municipal Corporation or Municipality or Capital Development Authority or Panchayats or any other Local Body constituted under any law for the time being in force for providing municipal services or basic services, as the case may be, in respect of areas under its jurisdiction

the local body, the local council or the municipal body as defined in clauses (23), (24) and (27) of Article 3 of the Basic Democracies Order, 1959, (P.O. 18 of 1959), or the Cantonment Board, having jurisdiction in the area concerned, and includes an Improvement Trust within such area

the fund of a local government established under section 78

a Union Council or the Metropolitan Corporation established under this Act

“local government” means a Union Council or the Town Corporation established under this Act and shall include the administrator appointed by the Government;