Glossary
The CLC’s Glossary is included to give the plain English meaning of some expressions which are greatly influenced by Arabic, Farsi, Sanskrit, Urdu, Hindi and Portuguese languages and that are frequently exercised in the legal text books, private and public documents in Bangladesh; though few of them are defined in statutes or case laws, yet possess considerable theoretical and legal interest. Besides, in practice of laws, many words and phrases are not always clear in meaning to the readers and thus create confusion and ambiguity especially in case of issues that involve land administration, legal history, private law (e.g. Muslim law, Hindu law) etc. These words and phrases, acquired quasi-technical meaning in law, are employed and referred by both the Courts and the jurists alike.
Including foreign users, Bangladeshi readers and law practitioners will be benefited by having the meanings of the words with proper citations of decisions of Courts, different dictionaries, legal texts and defining by the legal experts of CLC team.
Glossary
| Title | Details | Hits |
|---|---|---|
| Sadr-adalat | The Supreme Court, the name of the highest court established under the East India Company in each Presidency.... | 724 |
| Panchaitnama | The written award of a court of arbitration. [Wilson’s Glossary] | 722 |
| Jama Kharach | Receipts and disbursement; debits and credits of an account.[Mitra’s Legal & Commercial Dictionary] | 722 |
| Pan | betel-leaf. | 721 |
| Hak | See Hakk. | 721 |
| Lakh | Lac or Lak, laksha. One hundred thousand; one hundred lakhs make a kror, i.e.10 million. | 720 |
| Rahim | Merciful; an attribute of God in the Bismillah, and thence used by the Sikhs as the name of the Musalman... | 718 |
| Fasl | A division of the year, a season; a harvest, a crop. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon] | 717 |
| Haji | One who has performed the Haj. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon] | 717 |
| Pala | Turn of worship of a duty. [Mitra’s Legal & Commercial Dictionary] | 716 |