noscitur a sociis – a mere rule of construction
In Pioneer Urban Land and Infrastructure Ltd. v. Union of India, (2019) 8 SCC 416, Court laid down the limits ...
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noscitur a sociis – a court must be careful before blindly applying the principle
Godfrey Phillips India Ltd. v. State of U.P., (2005) 2 SCC 515, a Constitution Bench had to construe the meaning ...
noscitur a sociis – interpretation should be made with pragmatism, not pedantically or in a stilted manner.
In CBI v. Braj Bhushan Prasad, (2001) 9 SCC 432, Court was asked to construe Section 89 of the Bihar ...
noscitur a sociis : meaning of a word should be known from its accompanying or associating words
noscitur a sociis : meaning of a word should be known from its accompanying or associating words
ejusdem generis – Interpretation ejusdem generis or noscitur a sociis need not always be made when words showing particular classes are followed by general words. Before the general words can be so interpreted there must be a genus constituted or a category disclosed with reference to which the general words can and are intended to be restricted.
Jagdish Chander Gupta v. Kajaria Traders (India) Ltd., (1964) 8 SCR 50, a five-Judge Bench had to decide as to ...
noscitur a sociis
Court was concerned with the meaning of the expression “posting” which occurs in Article 233 of the Constitution, qua District ...
