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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sarkar | The Government, the supreme authority in the state. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon] | 290 |
| Muntakhib | An abstract of the documents, in the older Survey records (N.W.P.) system being a list of names, with... | 291 |
| Bhratri | What is given to a girl by her brother, mother or father. [Wilson’s Glossary] | 291 |
| Fazar | The first prayer of Musalman day. | 291 |
| Said-zada, Saiyd-zada | The descendent of a Said, or of Mohammad. [Wilson’s Glossary] | 291 |
| Hindi | An Indian vernacular language; the language spoken by far the largest portion of the population in Northern... | 291 |
| Mahram | Anyone to whom the women’s apartments are open. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon] | 291 |
| Karani | Writer or Accountant. A clerk, a scribe. The word sometimes corrupted into cranny, is used to denote... | 292 |
| Nazim | The chief officer of a province. A viceroy or Governor. [Macnaughten’s Mohammadan Law] | 292 |
| Sufi | Wise; the name of a sect who outwardly conform to Islam, but have adopted a mystical pantheism resembling... | 292 |