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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bharatiya | a tenant, a renter. | 491 |
| Amal | Being in charge or possession of. [Wilson’s Glossary] | 491 |
| Amin | A revenue surveyor, land measurer, etc. [Baden Powell’s Land System in British India] | 491 |
| Anna | See Ana. | 491 |
| Masjid | A mosque, a place of worship. Masjid- A Muhammadan chuch. The first Masjid was built on the spot where... | 491 |
| Istihsan | Approving in law a favourable construction or interpretation of a point of law, deviating from the strict... | 491 |
| Satin | A co-wife, expressing the relationship of man’s different wives; each is said to be Satin to the other.... | 491 |
| Selami | See Salami. | 491 |
| Khalif | The successor to sovereign power, especially applied to the successors of Mohammad, who united the characters... | 490 |
| Prajapala | A king, a ruler; a name of the deity Brahma. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon] | 490 |