Doctrine of Contemporanea Expositio

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....he question of construction. (Maxwell 12th Edn.). In Crawford on Statutory Construction (1940 Edn.) it has been stated that administrative construction (i.e. contemporaneous construction placed by administrative or executive officers charged with executing a statute) generally should be clearly wrong before it is overturned; such a construction, commonly referred to as practical construction, alth....

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.... uncertainty which prevails in other systems of law as to the manner in which transfers may be validly effected by a corporate body." Desh Bandhu Gupta v. Delhi Stock Exchange Association Ltd.- [1979 (2) TMI 175 - SUPREME COURT] Scope of Contemporanea Expositio The Doctrine of Contemporanea Expositio is applied as a guide to the interpretation of a statute or even document by referring to ....