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 |
|---|---|---|
| Barga | An agreement by which the cultivator engages to pay the landlord half the produce, the latter providing... | 525 |
| Bhara | Hire, wages rent, recompose. In Bengal it is especially the hire of any inanimate thing, and therefore... | 525 |
| Sipoy | A soldier. | 526 |
| Kifayat | Surplus, profit, advantage; profit or increase in the amount of revenue received by the Government, whether... | 526 |
| Amal-sanad | Payment of the revenue by a division of the crop, or in kind; applied also to a village where the revenue... | 526 |
| Ghazi | One who takes part in ghazu, which originally meant a plundering raid, but in the time of Muhammad came... | 526 |
| Arzi-dawa | A petition of complaint, the plaint, the first pleading in a suit. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon.] | 526 |
| Hanafi or Hanefi | The first of four Sunni schools that was founded Abu Hanifa. It is the most conservative of all, and... | 526 |
| Hundi | A bill of exchange. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon&Mitra’s Legal & Commercial Dictionary] | 526 |
| Mubarat | Separation by mutual consent. Dissolution of marriage by mutual consent, putting away a wife, dissolving... | 526 |