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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pargana | A tract of a country comprising many villages; a revenue district. [Mitra’s Legal & Commercial Dictionary]... | 204 |
| Raiyat | A subject; a tenant, a cultivating tenant, a farmer, a cultivator. [Mitra’s Legal & Commercial Dictionary]... | 1685 |
| Patita | A prostitute. An outstate. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon] | 201 |
| Mohammadan | A Musalman. A person who believes in the religion of Mohammad, and in Mohammad as a true prophet.... | 186 |
| Masjid | A mosque, a place of worship. Masjid- A Muhammadan chuch. The first Masjid was built on the spot where... | 203 |
| Panjabi | A long, full-handed loose dress for man. The language of the Punjab. It is of Sanskrit origin and... | 213 |
| Patni | A heritable tenure directly under the zamindar. [Mitra’s Legal & Commercial Dictionary] A patni... | 199 |
| Paisa, Paissa | A copper coin, which under the native government, varied considerably in weight and value; in common... | 443 |
| Muharram | The name of the first month of the Mohammadan year. The mourning festival observed in that month by the... | 221 |
| Mutawalli, Mutwalli | The Manager of wakf property is called a mutawalli. [Mitra’s Legal & Commercial Dictionary] Under... | 323 |