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 |
|---|---|---|
| Musammat | Respectable woman; the title generally prefixed to women and abbreviated as “Mst”. [Mitra’s Legal... | 670 |
| Mukhtar | An agent, a steward; a representative. A Mukhtar is an attorney whether appointed specially or generally... | 348 |
| Muta, Mutah | A temporary marriage under the Mahommadan law. [Mitra’s Legal & Commercial Dictionary] A temporary... | 207 |
| Munsif | A justice; an arbitrator, a judge. Under the British Government the term is applied to the native Judge... | 204 |
| Sari | Woman’s garment. The long piece of cloth that a Bengali woman wears. A Hindu woman’s chief garment.... | 215 |
| Jagir, Jaghir | An assignment of the Government revenue on a tract of land to families, individuals, or public officers.... | 375 |
| Sapinda | A kinsman connected by offerings of balls of rice or of meat to common ancestors; the affinity extends... | 207 |
| Sarai | A house; lace; a seragilo; a building erected for the accommodation of travelers. [Macnaughten’s Mohammadan... | 231 |
| Sati | A faithful, virtuous wife; especially one who burns herself with the corpse of her husband. [P Ramanatha... | 191 |
| Sardar | A chief, a headman, a commander; the head of a set of palanquin hearers. [Wilson’s Glossary] A prince;... | 180 |