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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bigha | a measure of land, varying in extent in different parts of India. [Wilson’s Glossary] | 191 |
| Prajapala | A king, a ruler; a name of the deity Brahma. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon] | 191 |
| Amir | A nobleman, a Mohammadan of high rank. [Wilson’s Glossary] | 191 |
| Anadi-bhumi | Land transferred by mortgage. [Wilson’s Glossary] | 191 |
| Rini | A debtor, a borrower. [Mitra’s Legal & Commercial Dictionary] | 191 |
| Salishkar | An arbitrator. | 191 |
| Hundi Darsani | A bill of exchange payable at sight. [Mitra’s Legal & Commercial Dictionary] | 191 |
| Sati | A faithful, virtuous wife; especially one who burns herself with the corpse of her husband. [P Ramanatha... | 191 |
| Sianat | Protection; in law the privilege of being under the protection of the law restricted to the faithful... | 192 |
| Sikh | The name of a religious sect founded in Punjab at the end of the fifteenth century by Nanak Shah, a Hindu... | 192 |