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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amal-sanad | Payment of the revenue by a division of the crop, or in kind; applied also to a village where the revenue... | 221 |
| Amla, Umla, Amlah | Agents; officers Government collectively; head native officer of a judicial or revenue court under the... | 221 |
| Arzi | A petition, an address, a memorial, a respectful statement or representation, whether oral or written.... | 221 |
| Aul or Aol | Increase. In Mohammedan law, the distribution of a fractional proportion of inherited property more than... | 221 |
| Haor | A depression in the soil, liable to remain flooded. [Bad. Pow. iii.448] | 221 |
| Moofty | The Mohammadan law officer who declares the sentence. [cited by P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon] | 221 |
| Muharram | The name of the first month of the Mohammadan year. The mourning festival observed in that month by the... | 221 |
| Sheristadar | Keeper of records; highest ministerial officer of the court. [Mitra’s Legal & Commercial Dictionary]... | 221 |
| Sud | Interest or profit. Interest, profit, usury; an extra tax exacted from the cultivators in Bengal under... | 220 |
| Akr | In Mohammadan law, a marriage portion or dower; also one to be settled on the female slave termed Mukatiba,... | 220 |