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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hanafi or Hanefi | The first of four Sunni schools that was founded Abu Hanifa. It is the most conservative of all, and... | 303 |
| Ishtihar | Notice, public notice, proclamation, advertisement.[Mitra’s Legal & Commercial Dictionary] | 303 |
| Munshiana | The practice of Munshiana at the Lahore bar is that a litigant pays counsel for his clerk, or pays to... | 304 |
| Beshi-jama | Increase of revenue or assessment upon that of the preceding year. [Wilson’s Glossary] | 304 |
| Foujdarry Court | A court for administering the criminal law. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon] | 304 |
| Guzara | The guzara is a sort of subordinate zamindari, or under proprietary tenure carved out in the estate,... | 304 |
| Follok | Two pieces of bamboo used for pressing the limbs by way of torture. [45 DLR (HCD) (1993) 142] | 305 |
| Ilahi | Divine; the title of the era instituted by the emperor Akbar, commencing with the first year of his reign,... | 305 |
| Kharij Jama | The word imports that the owner of the Kharil jama is an independent proprietor. [AIR 1926 Pat 152] | 306 |
| Razi | Consenting, agreement to, contended or satisfied with; also Raji; Consent, agreement. [Wilson’s Glossary] | 306 |