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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baghichadar | owner of a grove; allowed to be plot or sub-proprietor of it. [Baden Powell’s Land System in British... | 581 |
| Sankha | A great Hindu Sage and writer of an important Smriti that bears his name. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The... | 581 |
| Shirakat nemeh | A deed of partnership. [Macnaughten’s Mohammadan Law] | 581 |
| Sikh | The name of a religious sect founded in Punjab at the end of the fifteenth century by Nanak Shah, a Hindu... | 580 |
| Ata | An appointed allowance or gratuity to soldiers and ministers of law or religion.[Wilson’s Glossary] | 580 |
| Hath-chithi | A letter or note written or avouched by the hand of a letter from a person of station, either in his... | 580 |
| Malik adna | Inferior proprietor. | 580 |
| Jamatkhana | A place of assembly. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon] | 580 |
| Muhallal | Lawful, made lawful, that which was not so before; as in law, a woman who having been divorced is married... | 580 |
| Nizam | Administration, also an administrator, a viceroy. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon] | 579 |