Legal glossary قانونی اصطلاحات
Terms used in Pakistani courts, in English and Urdu. Where a statute defines a term, its official definition is quoted.
13 terms
Afw (waiver)
عفو
Waiver of the right of qisas by an adult sane wali, with or without compensation.
عاقل بالغ ولی کا معاوضے کے ساتھ یا بغیر قصاص کا حق معاف کرنا۔
Official definition: Section 309, PPC›
(1) In the case of qatl-i-amd, an adult sane wali may, at any time and without any compensation, waive his right of qisas:
Provided that the right of qisas shall not be waived-
(a) where the Government is the wali ; or
(b) where the right of qisas vests in a minor or insane [:]
[Provided further that where the principle of fasad-fil-arz is attracted, waiver of qisas shall be subject to the provisions of section 311.]
(2) Where a victim has more than one wali, anyone of them may waive his right of qisas:
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ارش
Compensation specified in the Penal Code for hurt, payable to the victim or his heirs.
ضرر کے لیے تعزیرات پاکستان میں مقرر معاوضہ جو متاثرہ یا اس کے ورثا کو ادا ہو۔
Official definition: Section 299, PPC›
(b) “arsh” (ارش) means the compensation specified in this Chapter to be paid to the victim or his heirs under this chapter;
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ضمان
Compensation fixed by the court for hurt that is not liable to arsh.
ایسے ضرر کے لیے عدالت کا مقرر کردہ معاوضہ جس پر ارش لاگو نہ ہو۔
Official definition: Section 299, PPC›
(d) “daman” (ضمان) means the compensation determined by the court to be paid by the offender to the victim for causing hurt not liable to arsh (ارش) ;
Read the full provisionQisas & diyatDiyat
دیت
Compensation payable to the heirs of the victim, as specified in the Penal Code.
مقتول کے ورثا کو قابل ادا معاوضہ جو تعزیرات پاکستان میں مقرر ہے۔
Official definition: Section 299, PPC›
(e) “diyat” (دیت) means the compensation specified in section 323 payable to the heirs of the victim;
Read the full provisionQisas & diyatFasad-fil-arz
فساد فی الارض
Circumstances such as past conduct, brutality, danger to the community or killing in the name of honour, defined for qisas and qatl cases.
ماضی کا کردار، سفاکی، معاشرے کے لیے خطرہ یا غیرت کے نام پر قتل جیسے حالات، جن کی تعریف قصاص و قتل کے مقدمات کے لیے کی گئی ہے۔
Official definition: Section 299, PPC›
[(ee) “fasad-fil-arz” includes the past conduct of the offender or whether he has any previous conviction or the brutal or shocking manner in which the offence has been committed which is outrageous to the public conscience or if the offender is considered a potential danger to the community or if the offence has been committed in the name or on the pretext of honour;]
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ضرر
Causing pain, harm, disease, infirmity or injury to a person, or impairing any part of his body.
کسی کو درد، نقصان، بیماری، کمزوری یا چوٹ پہنچانا یا جسم کے کسی حصے کو ناکارہ کرنا۔
Official definition: Section 332, PPC›
(1) Whoever causes pain, harm, disease, infirmity or injury to any person or impairs, disables 3 [, disfigures, defaces]or dismembers any organ of the body or part thereof of any person without causing his death, is said to cause hurt.
(2) The following are the kinds of hurt: __
(a) Itlafiudw; (اتلاف عضو)
(b) itlafisalahiyyatiudw; (اتلاف صلاحیت عضو)
(c) shajjah; (شجہ)
(d) jurh (جرح) ; and
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Read the full provisionQisas & diyatQatl shibh-i-amd
قتل شبہ عمد
Causing death by an act intended to harm the body, but not likely in the ordinary course to cause death.
ایسا فعل جس سے جسمانی ضرر کی نیت ہو مگر عام حالات میں موت کا امکان نہ ہو، اور موت واقع ہو جائے۔
Official definition: Section 315, PPC›
Whoever, with intent to cause harm to the body or mind of any person, causes the death of that or of any other person by means of a weapon or an act which in the ordinary course of nature is not likely to cause death is said to commit qatl-shibh-i-’amd.
Illustration A in order to cause hurt strikes Z with a stick or stone which in the ordinary course of nature is not likely to cause death. Z dies as a result of such hurt. A shall be guilty of qatl shibh-i-’amd.
Read the full provisionQisas & diyatQatl-i-amd
قتل عمد
Intentional killing: causing death with the intention of causing death or bodily injury likely to cause death.
جان بوجھ کر قتل: موت یا ایسی جسمانی ضرر کی نیت سے موت کا باعث بننا جس سے موت کا امکان ہو۔
Official definition: Section 300, PPC›
Whoever, with the intention of causing death or with the intention of causing bodily injury to a person, by doing an act which in the ordinary course of nature is likely to cause death, or with the knowledge that his act is so imminently dangerous that it must in all probability cause death, causes the death of such person, is said to commit qatl-e-amd.
Read the full provisionQisas & diyatQatl-i-khata
قتل خطا
Causing death by mistake, without intention to harm.
بغیر نیت ضرر غلطی سے موت کا باعث بننا۔
Official definition: Section 318, PPC›
Whoever, without any intention to cause the death of, or cause harm to, a person causes death of such person, either by mistake of act or by mistake of fact, is said to commit qatl-i-khata.
Illustration
(a) A aims at a deer but misses the target and kills Z who is standing by. A is guilty of qatl-i-khata.
(b) A shoots at an object to be a boar but it turns out to be a human being. A is guilty of qatl-i-khata.
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قصاص
Punishment by causing similar hurt or death to the offender as he caused to the victim.
مجرم کو وہی ضرر یا موت دینا جو اس نے متاثرہ شخص کو پہنچائی۔
Official definition: Section 299, PPC›
(k) “qisas” (قصاص) means punishment by causing similar hurt at the same part of the body of the convict as he has caused to the victim or by causing his death if he has committed qatl-i-amd, in exercise of the right of the victim or a wali ;
Read the full provisionQisas & diyatSulh (compounding)
صلح
Compounding of the right of qisas by the wali on accepting badal-i-sulh.
ولی کا بدل صلح قبول کر کے قصاص کے حق پر صلح کرنا۔
Official definition: Section 310, PPC›
(1) In the case of qatl-i-amd, an adult sane wali may, at any time on accepting badal-i-sulh, compound his right of qisas:
[Provided that a female shall not be given in marriage or otherwise in badal-i-sulh] [:]
[Provided further that where the principle of fasad-fil-arz is attracted, compounding of the right of qisas shall be subject to the provisions of section 311.]
(2) Where a wali is a minor or an insane, the wali of such minor or insane wali may compound the right of qisas on behalf of such minor or insane wali:
Provided that the value of badal-i-sulh shall not be less than the value of diyat.
(3) Where the Government is the wali, it may compound the right of qisas:
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تعزیر
Punishment other than qisas, diyat, arsh or daman.
قصاص، دیت، ارش یا ضمان کے علاوہ سزا۔
Official definition: Section 299, PPC›
(l) “ta’zir” (تعزیر) means punishment other than qisas (قصاص), diyat (دیت), arsh (ارش) or daman (ضمان) ; and
Read the full provisionQisas & diyatWali
ولی
The person entitled to claim qisas.
وہ شخص جسے قصاص کا مطالبہ کرنے کا حق ہو۔
Official definition: Section 299, PPC›
(m) “wali” (ولی) means a person entitled to claim qisas.
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Plain explanations in English and Urdu are DastoorAI's summaries, not legal text. Official definitions are quoted from the Constitution and the Pakistan Penal Code.