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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sabha | An assembly, an assemblage of persons of rank or respectability, or the place in which they assemble,... | 627 |
| Kabaladar | The holder of a kabala or bond, one entitled to right in consequence of forfeiture of a bond, or the... | 627 |
| Nadi | Common term for any river above the size of small stream. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon] | 623 |
| Haji | One who has performed the Haj. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon] | 623 |
| Mataa | Mataa is something to which a divorced woman is entitled and which the former husband is under an obligation... | 622 |
| Otti | A pledge, a pawn; a mortgage; a mortgage; a mortgage in usufructuary form. [Mitra’s Legal & Commercial... | 621 |
| Jagirdari | The possession of rights of the holder of a jagir. [Wilson’s glossary] | 621 |
| Sruti | Hearing, applied especially to the Vedas collectively in contradiction to the Smriti law. [Wilson’s... | 620 |
| Panda | Priest of a temple; one who helps others in entering a temple and worship the deity. [Mitra’s Legal... | 620 |
| Haja | Destruction of crops by floods or heavy rain. [Wilson’s glossary] | 619 |