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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ghair-Jama | Not paying revenue, rent-free. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon] | 726 |
| Naik | see Nayak. | 729 |
| Ka | First letter from Bangla Letters (Bornomala) that comes before Kha. | 729 |
| Qaimi | “Qaimi” means settled raiyat. [AIR 1925 Pat 241] | 730 |
| Gamcha | A long cloth. | 732 |
| Ganji or Genji | T-shirt. | 732 |
| Langar | An almshouse. [Wilson’s Glossary] | 732 |
| Sabha | An assembly, an assemblage of persons of rank or respectability, or the place in which they assemble,... | 733 |
| Mafi | Remitted, free, applied to lands exempt from the payment of revenue. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon] | 733 |
| Raiyatwar-jama-bandi | Statement of the revenue settlement made with each cultivator. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon] | 734 |