Vs.
EmailAppeal:
Petitioner:
Respondent:
Apeal:
Judges: K.T. THOMAS & D.P. MOHAPATRA, JJ.
Date of Judgment: Jun 04, 1999
Head Note:
Interpretation of Statutes
Monosyllable “only” – How to interpret – Principle to be followed.
Held:
It is not a sound principle in interpretation of statutes to lay emphasis on one word disjuncted from its preceding and succeeding words. A word in a statutory provision is to be read in collocation with its companion words. The pristine principle based on the maxim “noscittur a sociis” (meaning of a word should be known from its accompanying or associating words) has much relevance in understanding the import of words in a statutory provision.(Para 6)
JUDGEMENT:
