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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pucca-Adatiya | Pucca Adatiya is a person who has been entrusted with the goods of his principal to dispose of the best... | 415 |
| Hak | See Hakk. | 415 |
| Magh | A Bengali Calendar month. | 415 |
| Bait-ul-Mal | The royal treasury; the public treasury or exchequer. [Macnaughten’s Mohammadan Law] | 414 |
| Ganatantrik | Democratic. | 414 |
| Mahalla | A division of a town, a quarter, a ward. [Wilson’s Glossary] | 414 |
| Sadar-Adalat | Chief Court or High Court; sometimes means District Court. [Mitra’s Legal & Commercial Dictionary] | 413 |
| Bakshish | A gift, a present. This is the common word for miscellaneous gratuities.[P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law... | 411 |
| Chitha | Statement of cattle of a village (one of the annual papers prepared by patwari). [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s... | 411 |
| Dakhil Karih | Register of mutations. | 411 |