Legal dictionary
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38 legal terms with Bengali equivalents and plain definitions.
A
- Adverse possession · বিরুদ্ধ দখল
- Open, continuous and hostile possession of another's property for the statutory period, after which the owner's right to sue is barred and the right itself is extinguished.
- Affidavit · হলফনামা
- A written statement of facts sworn or affirmed before an authorised officer, used as evidence where the law permits.
B
- Bail · জামিন
- Release of an accused person from custody on security that they will appear when required.
- Bailable offence · জামিনযোগ্য অপরাধ
- An offence shown as bailable in the Second Schedule to the Code of Criminal Procedure, for which release on bail is a right.
C
- Cause of action · নালিশের কারণ
- The set of facts that a plaintiff must prove to be entitled to the relief claimed.
- Certiorari · সার্টিওরারি
- A writ-type order by which a superior court quashes a decision of an inferior body made without or in excess of jurisdiction.
- Cognizable offence · আমলযোগ্য অপরাধ
- An offence for which a police officer may arrest without a warrant.
- Cognizance · আমলে গ্রহণ
- The point at which a Magistrate or court first applies judicial mind to the facts of an offence with a view to proceeding.
- Complaint · নালিশ
- An allegation made orally or in writing to a Magistrate, with a view to action, that some person has committed an offence. A police report is not a complaint.
- Confession · স্বীকারোক্তি
- A statement by an accused admitting the offence, or substantially all the facts that constitute it.
D
- De novo · নতুন করে
- Afresh, from the beginning. A trial de novo is a new trial in which the matter is heard again as if for the first time.
- Decree · ডিক্রি
- The formal expression of an adjudication that conclusively determines the rights of the parties on the matters in controversy in a suit.
- Dower (mahr) · দেনমোহর
- A sum of money or property that a Muslim wife is entitled to receive from her husband as a mark of respect, on or after marriage.
- Dying declaration · মৃত্যুকালীন জবানবন্দি
- A statement by a person, since deceased, about the cause of their death or the circumstances of the transaction that resulted in it.
E
F
- First information report (FIR) · এজাহার
- The information about a cognizable offence recorded by the officer in charge of a police station under section 154 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
H
- Habeas corpus · হেবিয়াস কর্পাস
- An order requiring a person detained to be brought before the court so that the lawfulness of the detention can be examined.
I
- Injunction · নিষেধাজ্ঞা
- A court order directing a party to do or refrain from doing a particular act. It may be temporary, perpetual or mandatory.
J
- Judgment · রায়
- The statement given by the judge of the grounds of a decree or order.
- Jurisdiction · এখতিয়ার
- The authority of a court to hear and decide a matter, determined by subject matter, territory and pecuniary value.
L
- Legal representative · আইনগত প্রতিনিধি
- A person who in law represents the estate of a deceased person, including anyone who intermeddles with the estate.
- Limitation · তামাদি
- The statutory time limit within which a suit, appeal or application must be filed.
- Lis pendens · বিচারাধীন মামলা
- The doctrine that a transfer of property made while a suit about it is pending does not affect the rights of the parties under the eventual decree.
M
- Mandamus · ম্যান্ডামাস
- An order directing a public authority to perform a public duty it is legally bound to perform.
- Mens rea · অপরাধমূলক মনোভাব
- The guilty mind — the intention, knowledge or other mental state that a crime requires.
- Mesne profits · অন্তর্বর্তীকালীন মুনাফা
- The profits that a person in wrongful possession of property actually received or might with ordinary diligence have received, with interest.
P
- Plaint · আরজি
- The written statement by which a plaintiff begins a civil suit, setting out the facts and the relief claimed.
- Possession · দখল
- Physical control of property together with the intention to hold it as one's own.
Q
- Quo warranto · কো-ওয়ারেন্টো
- An order requiring a person holding a public office to show by what authority they claim to hold it.
R
- Remand · রিমান্ড
- An order authorising detention of an accused in custody while investigation continues, made under section 167 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
- Res judicata · দোবারা দোষ
- A matter finally decided by a competent court cannot be re-litigated between the same parties.
- Res sub judice · বিচারাধীন বিষয়
- A matter under judicial consideration. Section 10 of the Code of Civil Procedure stays a later suit on the same matter.
T
- Talaq · তালাক
- Divorce pronounced by a Muslim husband. Under section 7 of the Muslim Family Laws Ordinance, 1961, written notice to the Chairman is required and talaq takes effect ninety days after the notice.
- Temporary injunction · অস্থায়ী নিষেধাজ্ঞা
- An interim order preserving the subject matter of a suit until it is decided, granted under Order XXXIX of the Code of Civil Procedure.
W
- Writ · রিট
- A formal order of a superior court. In Bangladesh, the High Court Division makes orders in the nature of writs under Article 102 of the Constitution.
- Written statement · জবাব
- The defendant's pleading in reply to the plaint in a civil suit.
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