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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ijaradar | Ijaradar is a tenure-holder within the meaning of the expression ‘tenure-holder’ used in the East... | 786 |
| Pancha | Five, the number five; it is also used as abbreviation for panchayat. [Wilson’s Glossary] | 787 |
| Dakhalnama | A deed of possession or occupancy; a document giving right of occupancy. [ITR 5 Cal 644 at 647] | 787 |
| Lagan | A yearly fee, a cash-rent. [Baden Powell’s Land System in British India] Lagan also denotes floatable... | 794 |
| Bagh | A garden, an orchard, a plantation, more particularly a pleasure garden with a summer house or palace,... | 795 |
| Ejarah | A farm of land, or rather of its revenue. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon] | 795 |
| Jaidad | Assets, funds, resources, property, estate. Jaidad usually means immovable property, and when it is used... | 798 |
| Abwab | Cesses or additions to the regular Land Revenue assessment. [Baden Powell’s Land System in British... | 799 |
| Abkari | Taxes or duties on the manufacture and sale of spirituous liquors, and intoxicating drugs. [P Ramanatha... | 802 |
| Hajib-nuksan | In Mohammadan law, partial exclusion with respect to inheritance, or substitution of one share to another,... | 802 |