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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ganatantrik | Democratic. | 414 |
| Hijra | Departure from one’s country separation of friends or lovers; whence it gives name to the departure... | 262 |
| Karma | Destiny or fate as determined by one’s own actions in the past. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon] | 273 |
| Haja | Destruction of crops by floods or heavy rain. [Wilson’s glossary] | 407 |
| Khala | Dissolution of the marriage at the suit of the wife, in which she agrees to make her husband compensation... | 292 |
| Batwara | Distribution of the lands of a village in allotments as originally made or agreed upon. [Wilson’s Glossary] | 267 |
| Ilahi | Divine; the title of the era instituted by the emperor Akbar, commencing with the first year of his reign,... | 288 |
| Batai | Division of the crop between the cultivator and the landlord or the Government in that capacity. Rent... | 322 |
| Ashrabat | Drinks, but in law applied specially to wines or spirituous liquors products from the fermentation of... | 268 |
| Dakhil daftar | Entered upon record, which is equivalent to being laid on the table, or postponed indefinitely; struck... | 1534 |