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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kuzi-ul-kuzat | The principle Kazi under the British government, the head Mohammadan legal officer Sadr Adalats, or courts... | 318 |
| Bhag Chashi | See Bargadar. | 318 |
| Aputra | Without son; (in Hindu Law) a man who has no son, who has never had, or who has lost an only son, and... | 318 |
| Malik Ala | Superior proprietor. | 318 |
| Ijmali | Held in common (as an estate) undivided, not partitioned, settled in common with two or more parties.... | 318 |
| Sarkar-abi | The High Court, the chief authority, the government, the viceregal establishment of the Nawab of Bengal;... | 318 |
| Para | A village, part of a village or town; it is commonly used in composition to form the names of villages... | 319 |
| Batai-dar | a cultivator who shares the crop with proprietor. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon] | 319 |
| Mufassal Adalat | Formerly a provincial court of justice. [Wilson’s Glossary] | 319 |
| Karz | Debt; In Mohammadan law, besides the general sense, it implies a loan to be repaid by something dissimilar,... | 320 |