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 |
|---|---|---|
| Chowdhury or Chaudhari | A rural nobleman; a land-officer in ancient time: sometimes having considerable influence; now applied... | 333 |
| Bandhu | A friend; a relation, a kinsman in general. In law, a cognate kinsman in a remote degree. [54 All 698] | 332 |
| Daroga | A manager, a superintendent, an overseer; particularly the head of custom or exercise station, or of... | 332 |
| Ghuslkhana | A bathing room; that part of a palace often considering of many elaborately ornamented chambers and passages,... | 332 |
| Dastak | Writ of demand for payment of land revenue. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon] | 331 |
| Rahim | Merciful; an attribute of God in the Bismillah, and thence used by the Sikhs as the name of the Musalman... | 331 |
| Naib-Tahsildar | The deputy or assistant of the Tahsildar. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon] | 330 |
| Dalal | An agent between buyer and seller, a broker, a salesman. [Wilson’s Glossary] | 330 |
| Kabul | Consenting; acceptation; agreeing to; acknowledgment.[Cited by P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon] | 330 |
| Maghrib namaz | The fourth prayer of Musalman day. | 329 |