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

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RaiyatwarAccording to or with Raiyats, familiarly applied to the revenue settlement which was made by Government...358
Raiyatwar-jama-bandiStatement of the revenue settlement made with each cultivator. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon]305
RajGovernment, sovereignty. A kingdom. [Macnaughten’s Mohammadan Law]211
RajaA king, prince, a title given by the native governments, and in later times by the British Governments,...233
RajabThe seventh moth of the Mohammadan year. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon]198
Rajahsee Raja.196
RajakumarThe son of a raja or prince. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon]173
RajaputA prince, the son of a Raja.176
RajgiSovereignty. [Macnaughten’s Mohammadan Law]238
RamA ram is an uncastrated male sheep. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon]187