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..... g to what the interpreter narrowly believes to have been the specific intentions or understandings of the text's authors or ratifiers, and no more. Also termed (in senses 1 & 2) strict construction, literal interpretation; literal construction; restricted interpretation; interpretatio stricta; interpretatio restricta; interpretatio verbalis. 3. The philosophy underlying strict interpretation of .....

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..... 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 strict (i.e., literal) sense." John Salmond , Jurisprudence 171 n. (t) (Glanville L. Williams ed., 10th ed. 1947). COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS (IMPORT) , MUMBAI VERSUS M/S. DILIP KUMAR AND COMPANY & ORS. - 2018 (7) TMI 1826 - SUPREME COURT (LB)
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