Legislative Dictionary

The Parliament of Bangladesh is the supreme law making authority and it has either adopted or enacted as many as 956 Acts, Ordinances and Orders till January, 2007 and in these laws hundreds of words have been defined or interpreted or explained to give effect to the true meaning of the laws. In this dictionary, we have included basically the terms which are defined in English [from 1987, the laws of Bangladesh have been being enacted in Bengali with some exception] and gradually we shall include all the terms defined or interpreted or explained in the laws of the land.

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Charge	"Charge" includes any head of charge when the charge contains more heads than one. [See, section 4 (c),...	360
Charge for Admission	"Charge for admission" includes any payment made by a person who having been admitted to one part of...	363
Chargeable	"Chargeable" means, as applied to an instrument executed or first executed after the commencement of...	351
Charitable Purposes	"Charitable purpose" includes relief of the poor, education, medical relief and the advancement of any...	359
Chaukidari Chakran Lands	The words "chaukidari chakran lands" shall mean lands which may have been assigned, otherwise than under...	440
Chaukidari Fund	The proceeds of every assessment to be levied under this Act in any village, together with any sum which...	387
Cheating	Whoever, by deceiving any person, fraudulently or dishonestly induces the person so deceived to deliver...	343
Cheating by Personation	A person is said to "cheat by personation" if he cheats by pretending to be some other person, or by...	387
Cheque	A "cheque" is a bill of exchange drawn on a specified banker and not expressed to be payable otherwise...	382
Cheque crossed generally	Where a cheque bears across its face an addition of the words "and company" or any abbreviation thereof,...	376

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