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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sahodari | A sister by the same mother. [Wilson’s Glossary] | 297 |
| Hijra | Departure from one’s country separation of friends or lovers; whence it gives name to the departure... | 297 |
| Hiba | Gift. A gift in law, a perfect gift, one accompanied by delivery and acceptance. A gift on a death-bed... | 296 |
| Mal | goods; wealth; property of any description; money; revenue. | 296 |
| Sapindana | Performed on the first anniversary after a person’s death, in which the deceased is associated with... | 296 |
| Sapratibanda | Obstructed property developing on parents or uncles, brothers and the rest upon the demise of the owner... | 296 |
| Shajja | A wound, a personal injury short of destroying life; wound of ten kinds are recognized by Mohammadan... | 296 |
| Singh | A lion; a name borne by men of the princely or military caste and Rajputs, and by Sikhs when fighting... | 295 |
| Krishak or Krishan | A cultivator, a tiller of soil, a husbandman.[Mitra’s Legal & Commercial Dictionary] | 295 |
| Pathan | This name a s used in India includes all the natives of the country commonly called Afganistan, and also... | 295 |