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..... horitatively answered, so that the Court may not answer it as a matter of discretion; 3. An issue about what the law is on a particular point; an issue in which parties argue about, and the court must decide what the true rule of law is; 4. An issue that, although it may turn on a factual point, is reserved for the court and excluded from the jury; an issue that is exclusively within the provi .....

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..... re would not have intended to be read in a pedantic manner. When words of the Sections allow narrow as well as wide interpretations, courts of law have developed the art and technique of finding the correct meaning by looking at the words in their context. In Reserve Bank of India v. Peerless General Finance Investment Company Ltd. & Ors. Reserve Bank of India vs. Peerless General Finance Investme .....

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..... take colour and appear different than when the stature is looked at without the glasses provided by the context. With these glasses we must look at the Act as a whole and discover what each section, each clause, each phrase and each word is meant and designed to say as to fit into the scheme of the entire Act. No part of a statute and no word of a statute can be construed in isolation. Statutes ha .....

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