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 |
|---|---|---|
| Shafi, Shafia | A person having the right of pre-emption. [Wilson’s Glossary] | 388 |
| Muatab | Respectable, worthy of confidence, a person of credit; one who is responsible for the sufficiency of... | 388 |
| Batwara | Distribution of the lands of a village in allotments as originally made or agreed upon. [Wilson’s Glossary] | 389 |
| Pirmushid | An aged instructor. A family priest. [Macnaughten’s Mohammadan Law] | 389 |
| Pujari | A priest in a temple, one who conducts public worship and receives the offerings either of his own account... | 389 |
| Atatayi | In Hindu Law, one guilty of a heinous offence. [Wilson’s Glossary] | 389 |
| Jamadar | The chief or leader of any number of persons, in military language, a native subaltern officer, second... | 389 |
| Muezzin | The officer who chants the Azan. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon] | 389 |
| Karma | Destiny or fate as determined by one’s own actions in the past. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon] | 390 |
| Sikka | A coining, die, a stamp, a mark, a seal, a signet, a royal signet, a stamped coin, especially the designation... | 390 |