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 |
|---|---|---|
| Fasid | Invalid, Irregular. A muslim marriage contracted without witness is fasid, that is, irregular, but not... | 365 |
| Fasl | A division of the year, a season; a harvest, a crop. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon] | 359 |
| Fasli | Relating to a harvest. The Muhammadan official era. An agricultural lease containing the term ‘fasli’... | 392 |
| Fatawa | A collection or digest of judicial of judicial decisions. The best known is the fatawa Alamgiri, complied... | 376 |
| Fatawa-i-Alamgiri | “The Fatwa-i-Alamgiri is a work of great authority in Mahomedan law, and was commenced in the year... | 472 |
| Fatawa-i-Serajiah | “The highest authority on the law of inheritance amongst the Sunnis of India is the Sirajiyah, which... | 347 |
| Fatiah | The opening Surah or chapter of the Koran; it is read for dying person, wherence the world has come to... | 206 |
| Faujdari | Criminal as opposed to diwani or civil. | 195 |
| Faujdari-Adalat | A criminal court. | 357 |
| Fazar | The first prayer of Musalman day. | 212 |