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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hiba | Gift. A gift in law, a perfect gift, one accompanied by delivery and acceptance. A gift on a death-bed... | 215 |
| Amanatdari | Guardianship, agency, trust. [Wilson’s Glossary] | 188 |
| Haria | Haria is a land granted to the relations of persons killed in an affray between two villages, by the... | 207 |
| Hartal | Hartal is means of protest by the people at large or by a group of a particular class of society. It... | 222 |
| Guru | Hindu spiritual teacher. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon] | 176 |
| Bhara | Hire, wages rent, recompose. In Bengal it is especially the hire of any inanimate thing, and therefore... | 201 |
| Halakat | Homicide. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon] | 185 |
| Ghar | House. | 347 |
| Hiba and Ariyat | If it is a gift of the corpus, then any condition which derogates from absolute dominion over the subject... | 850 |
| Ijaradar | Ijaradar is a tenure-holder within the meaning of the expression ‘tenure-holder’ used in the East... | 400 |