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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hiba-bil-iwaz | A gift for a consideration. It is in reality a sale (Mohammadan law). [Mitra’s Legal & Commercial Dictionary]... | 908 |
| Chowdhury or Chaudhari | A rural nobleman; a land-officer in ancient time: sometimes having considerable influence; now applied... | 909 |
| Dar-ul-harb | A country under a Government that is not Muhammadan. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon] | 910 |
| Sadaqah | A gift by a Mahomedan made with the object of acquiring religious merit. [Mitra’s Legal & Commercial... | 910 |
| Bainama | a certificate of sale granted by court after confirmationof sale. [Mitra’s Legal & Commercial Dictionary] | 911 |
| Benami | Transactions in sale of land, etc., designed to conceal the real owner, wherein one person’s name appears... | 911 |
| Qazi | See kazi. | 912 |
| Kabul | Consenting; acceptation; agreeing to; acknowledgment.[Cited by P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon] | 913 |
| Ka | First letter from Bangla Letters (Bornomala) that comes before Kha. | 914 |
| Ail | Boundary of a plot of land.[45 DLR (HCD) (1993) 142] | 916 |