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 |
|---|---|---|
| Malik Ala | Superior proprietor. | 512 |
| Mohori, Mohrer, Mohur, Moherrie | A clerk. A writer, a clerk in an office. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon] | 512 |
| Rin | Debt, loan. [Mitra’s Legal & Commercial Dictionary] Debt of any description. [Wilson’s Glossary]... | 513 |
| Munshiana | The practice of Munshiana at the Lahore bar is that a litigant pays counsel for his clerk, or pays to... | 514 |
| Karbala | The meeting place of the taziahs at the Muharram festival, so called after Karbala, in Turkish, Arabia,... | 514 |
| Sudder Nizamut Adawlut | See Sadr-nizamat-adalat. | 514 |
| Ghazb | Violence. Force. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon] | 515 |
| Hartal | Hartal is means of protest by the people at large or by a group of a particular class of society. It... | 515 |
| Samabartan, samavattana | The ceremony which takes place when the young Brahmin has completed his course of religious study, and... | 515 |
| Mufti | A Mohammadan law officer, whose duty it was to expound the laws which the Kazi was to execute; the later... | 515 |