Can and cannot - Indian Laws - General

Word Can and cannot The word cannot emphatically connotes a situation of impasse. In Shorter Oxford Dictionary , 3rd Edn., at page 255, the word can is defined as to be able; to have power or capacity . The word cannot , therefore, would mean not to be able or not to have the power or capacity . In Stroud s Judicial Dictionary , 5th Edn., the word cannot is defined; To include a legal inability as well as physical impossibility. SR. BOMMAI VERSUS UOI. - 1994 (3) TMI 380 - SUPREME COURT