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 |
|---|---|---|
| Rahim | Merciful; an attribute of God in the Bismillah, and thence used by the Sikhs as the name of the Musalman... | 331 |
| Rahn | Mortgage, pledge, pawn. [Mitra’s Legal & Commercial Dictionary] | 270 |
| Rai or Ray | Judgment or verdict of a Court of Law. During the time of the mohammadan government it was title given... | 323 |
| Rai-bandi | A statement or table of rates, a document showing the rates at which different descriptions of land or... | 341 |
| Raiyat | A subject; a tenant, a cultivating tenant, a farmer, a cultivator. [Mitra’s Legal & Commercial Dictionary]... | 1685 |
| Raiyati | A lease given to a peasant cultivator. [Wilson’s Glossary] | 310 |
| Raiyatwar | According to or with Raiyats, familiarly applied to the revenue settlement which was made by Government... | 358 |
| Raiyatwar-jama-bandi | Statement of the revenue settlement made with each cultivator. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon] | 305 |
| Raj | Government, sovereignty. A kingdom. [Macnaughten’s Mohammadan Law] | 212 |
| Raja | A king, prince, a title given by the native governments, and in later times by the British Governments,... | 233 |