Interpretation of Statutes

30 topics

1. Need for interpretation of a statute
2. Meanings of Interpretation of Statutes
3. A state and the casus omissus
4. Interpretation of Definition Clause
5. Principles of Interpretation including Heydon’s Rule of Interpretation, Golden Rule of Interpretation
6. Aids to Interpretation
7. Legal Terminologies
8. Reading a Bare Act & Citation of Cases
9. Pari Materia
10. Harmonious Construction
11. Prospective and retrospective operation
12. Use of “May” and “Shall”
13. Use of “And” and “or”
14. Interpretation of proviso
15. Latin maxims used to interpret words and phrases
16. Contemporanea Expositio
17. Deeming provisions
18. Repugnancy with other statutes
19. Conflict between general provision and special provision
20. Socially beneficial construction
21. Interpretation of Procedural Law
22. Interpretation of fiscal and taxing statutes
23. Delegated legislations
24. Conflict between Statute, Rules and regulations
25. Doctrine of substantial compliance
26. Doctrine of impossibility of performance
27. Strict Construction of penal statutes
28. Interpretation of Fiscal and Taxation Statute
29. Brief of General Clause Act, 1897
30. Reading Methodology of the Companies Act, 2013 and its Legal Aura