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 |
|---|---|---|
| Shadi | A marriage, a wedding; the festive celebration of a proper nikah. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon] | 186 |
| Senapati | A general; a commander in chief. [Wilson’s Glossary] | 170 |
| Sena | An army. [Wilson’s Glossary] | 186 |
| Selami | See Salami. | 179 |
| Saytan | The enemy of man; the chief of the fallen angels; the devil. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon] | 207 |
| Sawar | A horseman, a horse-soldier; a mounted police-man; and particularly a mounted attendant or messenger... | 215 |
| Satiwar | The place where a widow has been burned by way of sati, sometimes marked by a peculiar monument. [Wilson’s... | 191 |
| Satin | A co-wife, expressing the relationship of man’s different wives; each is said to be Satin to the other.... | 175 |
| Sati | A faithful, virtuous wife; especially one who burns herself with the corpse of her husband. [P Ramanatha... | 191 |
| Satan | See Saytan. | 224 |