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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pala | Turn of worship of a duty. [Mitra’s Legal & Commercial Dictionary] | 923 |
| Naib | A deputy, representative, a deputy collector of rent. [Mitra’s Legal & Commercial Dictionary] | 922 |
| Hajat | Confinement of one charged with commission of offence. | 921 |
| Kabaladar | The holder of a kabala or bond, one entitled to right in consequence of forfeiture of a bond, or the... | 919 |
| Lathi | Stick. | 917 |
| Mafi | Remitted, free, applied to lands exempt from the payment of revenue. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon] | 917 |
| Jagirdari | The possession of rights of the holder of a jagir. [Wilson’s glossary] | 917 |
| Ail | Boundary of a plot of land.[45 DLR (HCD) (1993) 142] | 916 |
| Sruti | Hearing, applied especially to the Vedas collectively in contradiction to the Smriti law. [Wilson’s... | 916 |
| Ghair-Jama | Not paying revenue, rent-free. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon] | 916 |