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] | 583 |
| Hazari | A commander of a thousand either actually or normally as an honorary title. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The... | 583 |
| Sapratibanda | Obstructed property developing on parents or uncles, brothers and the rest upon the demise of the owner... | 583 |
| Aurasa | Uterine, as a son by a wife. A maternal brother, or a son of the same mother.[Wilson’s Glossary] | 582 |
| Istihsan | Approving in law a favourable construction or interpretation of a point of law, deviating from the strict... | 582 |
| Sawar | A horseman, a horse-soldier; a mounted police-man; and particularly a mounted attendant or messenger... | 582 |
| Johar namaz | Second prayer for Musalman day. | 582 |
| Shikari | A hunter, one engaged in, or whose profession is, the pusuit of game. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law... | 582 |
| Khalif | The successor to sovereign power, especially applied to the successors of Mohammad, who united the characters... | 581 |
| Parampara | One after another in succession, hereditary, traditional. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon] | 581 |