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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kharach | Expenditure, disbursement, the debit side of an account paper.[Mitra’s Legal & Commercial Dictionary] | 189 |
| Khankah | A Mohammadan shrine. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon] | 189 |
| Khandan | Ordinarily the word khandan which corresponds with the English expression ‘family’ means a group... | 214 |
| Khalimah | The Muhammadan confession of faith: “There is but not Got, and Muhammadan is the Prophet of God.”... | 188 |
| Khalif | The successor to sovereign power, especially applied to the successors of Mohammad, who united the characters... | 197 |
| Khala | Dissolution of the marriage at the suit of the wife, in which she agrees to make her husband compensation... | 219 |
| Khal | Water channel; water course, through which water is carried to one’s land. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The... | 189 |
| Khairat | Alms, charity; lands given as charitable endowments. The term is more especially applicable to grants... | 182 |
| Khadim | A mosque servant, or one who has charge of a religious endowment. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon]... | 192 |
| Khadi | Any cloth woven on handloom in India from cotton, silk or woolen yarn, handspun in India or from a mixture... | 165 |