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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hasil | Produce, profit, especially as revenue term, the amount derived from the government share of the produce... | 210 |
| Amdani | Products of the earth, articles of merchandise; generally arriving at market in their fit season, also... | 199 |
| Hadd | Punishment, Chastisement, especially by infection of lashes. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon] | 406 |
| Kias | reasoning, inference, logical deduction in the absence of a positive law, judgment on the merits of a... | 172 |
| Jama Kharach | Receipts and disbursement; debits and credits of an account.[Mitra’s Legal & Commercial Dictionary] | 355 |
| Dakhil Karih | Register of mutations. | 323 |
| Ain-Akbari | Regulations of Akbar. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon.] | 313 |
| Fasli | Relating to a harvest. The Muhammadan official era. An agricultural lease containing the term ‘fasli’... | 391 |
| As-har | Relation by marriage within the degrees on which marriage is prohibited.[Wilson’s Glossary] | 237 |
| Dharma, Dharam | Religion. | 339 |