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“All Citizens are Equal before Law and are Entitled to Equal Protection of Law”-Article 27 of the Constitution of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh



Issue No: 64
April 19 , 2008

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Law lexicon

Charge to the jury - The judge's instructions to the jury concerning the law that applies to the facts of the case on trial.

Chief judge - Presiding or administrative judge in a court.

Chattel - An article of personal property.

Child - Offspring of parentage; progeny.

Chronological - Arranged in the order in which events happened; according to date.

Circumstantial evidence - All evidence except eyewitness testimony. One example is physical evidence, such as fingerprints, from which an inference can be drawn.

Citation - A writ or order issued by a court commanding the person named therein to appear at the time and place named; also the written reference to legal authorities, precedents, reported cases, etc., in briefs or other legal documents.

Citators - A set of books which provides the subsequent history of reported decisions through a form of abbreviations or words.

Civil - Relating to private rights and remedies sought by civil actions as contrasted with criminal proceedings.

Civil action - An action brought to enforce or protect private rights.

Civil law - Law based on a series of written codes or laws.

Civil procedure - The rules and process by which a civil case is tried and appealed, including the preparations for trial, the rules of evidence and trial conduct, and the procedure for pursuing appeals.

Claim - A debt owing by a debtor to another person or business. In probate parlance, the term used for debts of the decedent and a procedure that must be followed by a creditor to obtain payment from his estate.

Class action - A lawsuit brought by one or more persons on behalf of a larger group.

Source: Jurist International.

 
 
 


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