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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hijra | Departure from one’s country separation of friends or lovers; whence it gives name to the departure... | 264 |
| Sarrishtah-i-Amanat | In Bengal under the Mohammadan and early British rule, an office for the examination and adjustment of... | 264 |
| Jihad | Mutual effort, a general effort such as Mohammadan preached to exterminate unbelievers; a holy war, a... | 264 |
| Karbala | The meeting place of the taziahs at the Muharram festival, so called after Karbala, in Turkish, Arabia,... | 263 |
| Kifayat | Surplus, profit, advantage; profit or increase in the amount of revenue received by the Government, whether... | 263 |
| Kirani | See karani. | 263 |
| Amal | Being in charge or possession of. [Wilson’s Glossary] | 263 |
| Salis, Salish | An umpire, an arbitrator. [Wilson’s Glossary] An arbitrator; an umpire; a third person who is appointed... | 263 |
| Hindi | An Indian vernacular language; the language spoken by far the largest portion of the population in Northern... | 263 |
| Sangam | Meeting, the confluence of two rivers. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon] | 263 |