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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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Cheque crossed specially	Where a cheque bears across its face an addition of the name of a banker, either with or without the...	307
Chief Revenue Authority	"Chief Revenue Authority" shall mean the National Board of Revenue constituted under the National Board...	310
Child	"Child" means a person under the age of sixteen years, and when used with reference to a child sent to...	361
Child Marriage	"Child marriage" means a marriage to which either of the contracting parties is a child. [See section...	313
Children	In a will "children" applies only to lineal descendants in the first degree of the person whose "children"...	311
Christians	The expression "Christians" means persons professing the Christian religion. [See section 3, the Christian...	317
Church	"Church includes any chapel or other building generally used for public Christian worship. [See section...	318
Church of England	"Church of England" and "Anglican" mean and apply to the Church of England as by law established. [See...	315
Church of Rome	"Church of Rome" and "Roman Catholic" mean and apply to the Church which regards the Pope of Rome as...	302
Church of Scotland	"Church of Scotland" means the Church of Scotland as by law established. [See section 3, the Christian...	316

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