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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kanya-dana | The presentation of the bride to the bride groom, by her parent or guardian, the giving of a girl in... | 284 |
| Kanya putra | The son of an unmarried girl. [Wilson’s glossary] | 321 |
| Kar | Rent or tax. | 274 |
| Karani | Writer or Accountant. A clerk, a scribe. The word sometimes corrupted into cranny, is used to denote... | 292 |
| Karbala | The meeting place of the taziahs at the Muharram festival, so called after Karbala, in Turkish, Arabia,... | 313 |
| Karma | Destiny or fate as determined by one’s own actions in the past. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon] | 303 |
| Karta | A coparcener who manages the family property either under an express or implied authority of other coparceners... | 393 |
| Karz | Debt; In Mohammadan law, besides the general sense, it implies a loan to be repaid by something dissimilar,... | 319 |
| Kayastha | A caste so termed, or a a member or it, sprung from a kshatriya father and Vaisya mother the occupation... | 287 |
| Kayemi | “The word Kayemi is never used in describing zamindari interest in land by any person. The word is... | 345 |