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 |
|---|---|---|
| Eid-al-fitr | The festival of breaking fast, the great Mohammadan holiday held on the 1st day of Shawal, when the Ramzan... | 506 |
| Sadr-amin | A chief commissioner or arbitrator, a native civil judge. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon] | 504 |
| Jama-bandi | Settlement of the amount of revenue assessed upon an estate, a village, or district; a village or district... | 504 |
| Dakhalnama | A deed of possession or occupancy; a document giving right of occupancy. [ITR 5 Cal 644 at 647] | 500 |
| Hadd | Punishment, Chastisement, especially by infection of lashes. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon] | 495 |
| Lagan | A yearly fee, a cash-rent. [Baden Powell’s Land System in British India] Lagan also denotes floatable... | 494 |
| Ijaradar | Ijaradar is a tenure-holder within the meaning of the expression ‘tenure-holder’ used in the East... | 490 |
| Babu, Baboo | A general title of respect attached to natives in Bengal. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon] | 488 |
| Hajib-nuksan | In Mohammadan law, partial exclusion with respect to inheritance, or substitution of one share to another,... | 487 |
| Fasid | Invalid, Irregular. A muslim marriage contracted without witness is fasid, that is, irregular, but not... | 486 |