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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amil-dar | A collector, or contractor for, the revenue; used as synonymous with Amil, an inaccuracy for Amal-dar.... | 282 |
| Guzara | The guzara is a sort of subordinate zamindari, or under proprietary tenure carved out in the estate,... | 282 |
| Moofty | The Mohammadan law officer who declares the sentence. [cited by P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon] | 282 |
| Mubarat | Separation by mutual consent. Dissolution of marriage by mutual consent, putting away a wife, dissolving... | 283 |
| Hartal | Hartal is means of protest by the people at large or by a group of a particular class of society. It... | 284 |
| Mufassal Adalat | Formerly a provincial court of justice. [Wilson’s Glossary] | 284 |
| Muharram | The name of the first month of the Mohammadan year. The mourning festival observed in that month by the... | 284 |
| Nizamat | The office of Nizam. As an adjective Nizamat means criminal, as opposed to diwani or civil as the Nizam... | 285 |
| Hanafi or Hanefi | The first of four Sunni schools that was founded Abu Hanifa. It is the most conservative of all, and... | 285 |
| Haria | Haria is a land granted to the relations of persons killed in an affray between two villages, by the... | 285 |