We are all familiar with the image of the immensely clever judge who discerns the best rule of common law for the case at hand. According to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, a judge like this can maneuver through earlier cases to achieve the desired aim—“distinguishing one prior case on his left, straight-arming another one on his right, high-stepping…
COMMENTARY ON THE GENERAL CLAUSES ACT, 1897 BY SC MITRA AND RP KATARIA The object of General Clauses Act, 1897 is to consolidate and shorten the language of statutory enactments and to provide for uniformity of expressions in cases where there is identity of subject matter. The object of this Act of 1897 is to place in one single enactment…
Reprint of the first edition. "The following pages contain a condensed statement and exposition of the accepted canons and rules for the construction and interpretation of the written laws, whether constitutional or statutory. In accordance with the general plan of the Hornbook Series, these rules have been formulated somewhat after the manner of a code, expressed in brief black-letter paragraphs…
ELH’s Modern Statutory Interpretation – Legislative Process and Principles of Statutory Interpretation by K.N. Chaturvedi – 1st Edition 2022. ELH’s Modern Statutory Interpretation – Legislative Process and Principles of Statutory Interpretation by K.N. Chaturvedi – 1st Edition 2022. Description :- Law is the essential lifeblood of a modern democracy. How it is found; what it means; how its ambiguities are…
Keynote This book provides readers with the way courts have interpreted indirect tax statutes with reference to case laws, sections and delegated legislation. Arranged under major concepts, the insight provided will be beneficial to judges, justices, practitioners, tax officials and to law colleges. Description Highlights of the book – Concepts of interpretation of tax statutes lucidly explained – An exclusive…
About the Book The purpose of the General Clauses Act is to place in one single statute different provisions as regards interpretations of words and legal principles which would otherwise have to be specified separately in many different Acts and Regulations. The General Clauses Act, 1897, has been enacted to shorten the language of statutory enactments and to avoid superfluity…
Description For the present edition, the book has once again been subjected to substantial revisions. The major additions are in the introductory part which seeks to define the place of legal theory. The important discussions that since the publication of the last edition have taken place with regard to the structure of the legal order, and the revival of the…
Lexis Nexis’s Principles of Statutory Interpretation by Justice G P Singh – 15th Edition 2022. Lexis Nexis’s Principles of Statutory Interpretation by Justice G P Singh – 15th Edition 2022. Description: Justice G P Singh’s Principles of Statutory Interpretation is a comprehensive resource which explores judicial, scholarly, and theoretical approaches to general principles of statutory interpretation. This authoritative work gives…
