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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ghazb | Violence. Force. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon] | 194 |
| Batil | Void from the beginning. That under the Mahomedan law, a marriage with a woman prohibited by reason of... | 228 |
| Alaga Bhumi | Waste land, land set apart for pasture. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon.] | 237 |
| Khal | Water channel; water course, through which water is carried to one’s land. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The... | 189 |
| Bhratri | What is given to a girl by her brother, mother or father. [Wilson’s Glossary] | 189 |
| Aputra | Without son; (in Hindu Law) a man who has no son, who has never had, or who has lost an only son, and... | 225 |
| Dastak | Writ of demand for payment of land revenue. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon] | 331 |
| Karani | Writer or Accountant. A clerk, a scribe. The word sometimes corrupted into cranny, is used to denote... | 178 |
| Sanadi-zamindar | A zamindar appointed under a royal patent, on default of heirs, to succeed to another zamindar, or on... | 193 |
| Sadr-amin | A chief commissioner or arbitrator, a native civil judge. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon] | 402 |