Words "Means and "Includes"

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..... in such definition. [KRISHI UTPADAN MANDI SAMITI VERSUS SHANKAR INDUSTRIES - 1993 (2) TMI 332 - SUPREME COURT] SMT. S VANITHA VERSUS THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER, BENGALURU URBAN DISTRICT ORS.- [ 2020 (12) TMI 1213 - SUPREME COURT] Justice G P Singh in his seminal treatise on the Principles of Statutory Interpretation observes: (Lexis Nexis, 14th Ed. Page 197-199) The Legislature has the power to defin .....

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..... slature by using an expression includes evinces, notwithstanding the meaning of the phrase, an intention: to enlarge the meaning of the words or phrases occurring in the body of the statute . Includes is utilized so as to comprehend: not only such things as they signify according to their nature and import but also those things which the interpretation clause declares that they shall include Howev .....

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..... part brings by way of extension various persons, categories, or things which would not otherwise have been included in the means part. If this is so, obviously both parts cannot be read conjunctively. What is in the includes part is relatable only to the subject that is to be defined and takes within its sweep persons, objects, or things which are not included in the first part. - Manuals - Read .....

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