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 |
|---|---|---|
| Jama | total, aggregate, deposit, debit or receipt side of an account. Rent or revenue payable by a zaminder... | 755 |
| Jama-bandi | Settlement of the amount of revenue assessed upon an estate, a village, or district; a village or district... | 892 |
| Jama Kharach | Receipts and disbursement; debits and credits of an account.[Mitra’s Legal & Commercial Dictionary] | 722 |
| Jama-Masjid | The principal mosque or Mohammadan place of prayer in a city.[Wilson’s glossary] | 504 |
| Jamadar | The chief or leader of any number of persons, in military language, a native subaltern officer, second... | 454 |
| Jamatkhana | A place of assembly. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon] | 436 |
| Jami | Land. | 475 |
| Jami Jama | The word ‘jami jama’ indicates lands as well as rent or when taken together in abstract sense means... | 607 |
| Jangal or Jongol | A forest, a ticket; any tract overrun with bushes or trees, or suffered to be overspread with vegetation.... | 581 |
| Jatiya | National. | 455 |