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 |
|---|---|---|
| Samana, Shoman | Equal, like same. [Wilson’s Glossary] | 270 |
| Hissa | A share, a part; a lot, a portion; a share of revenue or rent. [Wilson’s glossary] | 270 |
| Sandhya | Either of the three principal periods of the day, sunrise, noon, sunset; also the religious worship appropriately... | 270 |
| Inaam-patta | A deed of grant, a document conveying an assignment of rent-free land. [Wilson’s glossary] | 270 |
| Muhassil | A tax-gatherer, a bailiff, but applied especially to messengers formerly sent to collect arrears of revenue,... | 270 |
| Kotwal | A chief Officer of Police in a City or Town. Under the native Governments the Kotwal sometimes exercised... | 269 |
| Pargana | A tract of a country comprising many villages; a revenue district. [Mitra’s Legal & Commercial Dictionary]... | 269 |
| Phupu | Aunty. Sister of father. | 269 |
| Byabastha | A statute, a law. A written opinion or dictum on a point of Hindu law drawn up by Bandits.[P Ramanatha... | 269 |
| Khalif | The successor to sovereign power, especially applied to the successors of Mohammad, who united the characters... | 268 |