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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NizamatThe office of Nizam. As an adjective Nizamat means criminal, as opposed to diwani or civil as the Nizam...221
NizamAdministration, also an administrator, a viceroy. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon]200
NiyogaAppointment to an office or duty. Procreation of son by appointment of a person other than the husband....204
NiskarRent-free tenancy; tenant not in fact paying rent. [Mitra’s Legal & Commercial Dictionary]204
NishkarRent-free land. [41 DLR (1989) 359]175
Nirkhrate; price; rate of rent. [Mitra’s Legal & Commercial Dictionary]   Market rate, price current, especially...204
NirdharitaAscertained; fixed; stipulated. [Mitra’s Legal & Commercial Dictionary]212
NirbahiExecutive branch of a Government.218
NikasAdjustment of accounts; rendering of accounts. [Mitra’s Legal & Commercial Dictionary]186
Nikah RegistrarNikah Registrar is neither a Government servant nor he is in the service of the Republic but he is a...265