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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hundi Darsani | A bill of exchange payable at sight. [Mitra’s Legal & Commercial Dictionary] | 423 |
| Mazduri | Labour. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon] | 423 |
| Mohori, Mohrer, Mohur, Moherrie | A clerk. A writer, a clerk in an office. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon] | 423 |
| Muntakhib | An abstract of the documents, in the older Survey records (N.W.P.) system being a list of names, with... | 422 |
| Subahdar | The Governor of a province or district; a Viceroy. Subahdar is also the name of an officer in the native... | 422 |
| Morphia | Morphia is opium. [AIR 1922 Lah. 216] | 422 |
| Karz | Debt; In Mohammadan law, besides the general sense, it implies a loan to be repaid by something dissimilar,... | 421 |
| Putra | A son. [Mitra’s Legal & Commercial Dictionary] | 421 |
| Asami | A person who is charged with a crime. A debtor or a defendant, or an acquised (in a law civil suit). | 421 |
| Hartal | Hartal is means of protest by the people at large or by a group of a particular class of society. It... | 421 |