Legislative Dictionary

The Parliament of Bangladesh is the supreme law making authority and it has either adopted or enacted as many as 956 Acts, Ordinances and Orders till January, 2007 and in these laws hundreds of words have been defined or interpreted or explained to give effect to the true meaning of the laws. In this dictionary, we have included basically the terms which are defined in English [from 1987, the laws of Bangladesh have been being enacted in Bengali with some exception] and gradually we shall include all the terms defined or interpreted or explained in the laws of the land.

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Title	Details	Hits

Decree-holder	"decree-holder" means any person in whose favour a decree has been passed or an order capable of execution...	501
Defamation	Whoever by words either spoken or intended to be read, or by signs, or by visible representations, makes...	319
Defendant	"Defendant" includes any person from or through whom a defendant derives his liability to be sued. [See...	357
Degree	Every generation constitutes a degree, either ascending or descending. [See section 25(2), the Succession...	310
Delegation	The appointment of an attorney or proxy to do an act merely ministerial and involving no independent...	321
Deliverable State (of goods sold)	oods are said to be in a "deliverable state" when they are in such state that the buyer would under the...	920
Delivery (of goods sold)	"Delivery" means voluntary transfer of possession from one person to another. [See section 2(2), the...	321
Demonstrative Legacy	Where a testator bequeaths a certain sum of money, or a certain quantity of any other commodity, and...	343
Dependant	"Dependant" means any of the following relatives of a deceased workman, namely:— (i) a widow, minor...	325
Dependant (of emigrant)	"Dependant" means any woman or child who is related to an emigrant and any aged or incapacitated relative...	343

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