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 |
|---|---|---|
| Benami | Transactions in sale of land, etc., designed to conceal the real owner, wherein one person’s name appears... | 356 |
| Benami | Nameless, fictitious, fraudulent; as a purchase under a false name, or land held in another name than... | 263 |
| Benamdar | See Benami. | 214 |
| Bazaar | A market, a daily market, a market-place. As opposed to bazaar, a hat is held on certain days; a ganj... | 200 |
| Batwara | Distribution of the lands of a village in allotments as originally made or agreed upon. [Wilson’s Glossary] | 198 |
| Batwar | A customs or police-officer stationed on road to collect transit duties. [Wilson’s Glossary] | 228 |
| Batti | A land measure. [Baden Powell’s Land System in British India] | 191 |
| Batil | Void from the beginning. That under the Mahomedan law, a marriage with a woman prohibited by reason of... | 228 |
| Batali | A sharp cutting weapon used by carpenters.[45 DLR (HCD) (1993) 142] | 249 |
| Batai-dar | a cultivator who shares the crop with proprietor. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon] | 216 |