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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.

Legislative Dictionary

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Cultivating Raiyat or Cultivation under-Raiyat"Cultivating raiyat" or "cultivating under-raiyat” means a raiyat or an under-raiyat, as the case may...352
Currency"Currency" includes all coins, currency notes, bank notes, postal notes, money orders, cheques, drafts,...268
Custodian of Enemy Property"Custodian of Enemy Property" includes an Additional Custodian of Enemy Property, a Deputy Custodian...324
Customary EasementsAn easement may be required in virtue of a local custom. Such easements are called customary easements....253
Customs-station"Customs-station" means any customs-port, customs-airport or any land customs-station. [See section 2(k),...319
Cutchery Building"Cutchery building" means a building or part of a building which, on the 16th May, 1951, or thereafter,...334
DacoityWhen five or more persons conjointly commit or attempt to commit a robbery, or where the whole number...471
DacoityWhen five or more persons conjointly commit or attempt to commit a robbery, or where the whole number...502
Dangerous Goods"Dangerous goods" means such articles, goods or things as the Government may, by notification in the...513
Daughter-in-Law"Daughter-in-law" shall be deemed to include the wife of an adopted son. [See section 6, the Hindu Wills...498
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