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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mohori, Mohrer, Mohur, Moherrie | A clerk. A writer, a clerk in an office. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon] | 441 |
| Khairat | Alms, charity; lands given as charitable endowments. The term is more especially applicable to grants... | 440 |
| Khiraz | Revenue raised from the land. It means the amount claimed by the State as its share of the profits arising... | 440 |
| Kismat | Share, distribution; share of prosperity, or the like allotted to each person in life; hence fate, fortune:... | 440 |
| Aurasa | Uterine, as a son by a wife. A maternal brother, or a son of the same mother.[Wilson’s Glossary] | 440 |
| Putra | A son. [Mitra’s Legal & Commercial Dictionary] | 440 |
| Sanad-diwani | A grant of or assignment of land, or rather of the government revenue assessed upon it. [Wilson’s Glossary] | 440 |
| Saptapadi | An essential part of a Hindu marriage being the taking of seven steps by the bridegroom and the bride... | 440 |
| Muntakhib | An abstract of the documents, in the older Survey records (N.W.P.) system being a list of names, with... | 439 |
| Karz | Debt; In Mohammadan law, besides the general sense, it implies a loan to be repaid by something dissimilar,... | 439 |