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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Cinematograph	"Cinematograph" includes any apparatus for the representation of moving pictures or series of pictures....	328
Citizen	"Citizen" means, for the purposes of this order, a person— (i) who or whose father or grandfather was...	334
Civil Court	"Civil Court" includes the High Court Division in the exercise of its extraordinary original civil jurisdiction...	340
Civil Jail	The words "civil jail" as used in this Act shall include the civil jail of the zila and any place appointed...	318
Civil Offence	"Civil offence" means an offence which, if committed in Bangladesh, would be triable by a criminal court....	350
Civil Prisoner	"Civil prisoner" means any prisoner who is not a criminal prisoner. [See section 3 (4), the Prisons Act,...	340
Claim	"Claim" means a claim of any kind or any nature which is ascertainable in terms of money. [See section...	320
Clerk or Servant	A person employed temporarily or on a particular occasion in the capacity of a clerk or servant, is a...	337
Closed	'Closed' means not open for service to any customer or to any business connected with any establishment....	338
Coastal Goods	"Coastal goods" means goods transported in a vessel from one port in Bangladesh to another, but does...	362

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