Words – ‘Shall’ - ‘as far as may be’ - The use of words ‘as far as may be’, occurring...
Read moreLotteries and gambling - ‘lotteries’ are a species within the genus of ‘gambling.’ - One of the essential features of...
Read more. Halsbury Fourth Edn., Volume 9, para 542 observes as follows: “542. Conditions and warranties.— The predominant modern approach is...
Read moreIn Pioneer Urban Land and Infrastructure Ltd. v. Union of India, (2019) 8 SCC 416, Court laid down the limits...
Read moreVikram Singh v. Union of India, (2015) 9 SCC 502, this Court was asked to construe the expression “government or...
Read moreGodfrey Phillips India Ltd. v. State of U.P., (2005) 2 SCC 515, a Constitution Bench had to construe the meaning...
Read moreIn CBI v. Braj Bhushan Prasad, (2001) 9 SCC 432, Court was asked to construe Section 89 of the Bihar...
Read morenoscitur a sociis : meaning of a word should be known from its accompanying or associating words
Read morein Rajasthan State Electricity Board v. Mohan Lal, (1967) 3 SCR 377, Court had to decide whether the expression “other...
Read moreJagdish Chander Gupta v. Kajaria Traders (India) Ltd., (1964) 8 SCR 50, a five-Judge Bench had to decide as to...
Read moreCourt was concerned with the meaning of the expression “posting” which occurs in Article 233 of the Constitution, qua District...
Read moreQuote - “The wisdom of legislature and the object of final and expeditious disposal of a criminal proceeding cannot be...
Read moreQuote: No mortal person whether he be a Judge or a jurist can ever claim to be infallible and all...
Read moreThe expressions ‘the same offence’, ‘substantially the same offence’, ‘in effect the same offence’ or ‘practically the same’, have not...
Read moreBachahan Devi v. Nagar Nigam, Gorakhpur, “18. It is well-settled that the use of word “may” in a statutory provision...
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