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 |
|---|---|---|
| Akar | The assessed rent or revenue of a village or district. Estimate in general. [Wilson’s Glossary] | 215 |
| Razinamah | A deed of agreement of compromise; a written petition withdrawing a charge or plaint; a deed of relinquishment... | 215 |
| Hiba | Gift. A gift in law, a perfect gift, one accompanied by delivery and acceptance. A gift on a death-bed... | 215 |
| Hissa | A share, a part; a lot, a portion; a share of revenue or rent. [Wilson’s glossary] | 215 |
| Sapratibanda | Obstructed property developing on parents or uncles, brothers and the rest upon the demise of the owner... | 215 |
| Sari | Woman’s garment. The long piece of cloth that a Bengali woman wears. A Hindu woman’s chief garment.... | 215 |
| Munshiana | The practice of Munshiana at the Lahore bar is that a litigant pays counsel for his clerk, or pays to... | 214 |
| Khandan | Ordinarily the word khandan which corresponds with the English expression ‘family’ means a group... | 214 |
| Sruti | Hearing, applied especially to the Vedas collectively in contradiction to the Smriti law. [Wilson’s... | 214 |
| Benamdar | See Benami. | 214 |