meaning and scope of ‘strict interpretation’

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..... ictionary (10th Edn.) strict interpretation is described as under: Strict interpretation- 1. An interpretation according to the narrowest, most literal meaning of the words without regard for context and other permissible meanings. 2. An interpretation according to what the interpreter narrowly believes to have been the specific intentions or understandings of the text s authors or ratifiers, and .....

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..... ability of the statute to the particular case . Willam M. Lile et al., Brief Making and the use of Law Books 343 (Roger W. Cooley Charles Lesly Ames eds., 3d ed. 1914). Strict interpretation is an equivocal expression, for it means either literal or narrow. When a provision is ambiguous, one of its meaning may be wider than the other, and the strict (i.e., narrow) sense is not necessarily the stri .....

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..... ss strictliteralism into its fold. It may be relevant to note that simply juxtaposing strict interpretation with literal rule would result in ignoring an important aspect that is apparent legislative intent . We are alive to the fact that there may be overlapping in some cases between the aforesaid two rules. With certainty, we can observe that, strict interpretation does not encompass such litera .....

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