Landmark case · Interpretation of Statutes · Semester 4

Senior Electric Inspector v. Laxminarayan Chopra

AIR 1962 SC 159 · Supreme Court of India

Contemporanea expositio is of little weight for modern statutes; the court prefers an updating construction of general words.

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Related sections:

General Clauses Act, 1897, 26 — Provision as to offences punishable under two or more enactments
Constitution of India, 367 — Interpretation of the Constitution