Means and Includes

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....ch definition. KRISHI UTPADAN MANDI SAMITI VERSUS SHANKAR INDUSTRIES - [1993 (2) TMI 332 - SUPREME COURT] Justice G P Singh in his seminal treatise on the Principles of Statutory Interpretation observes: (Lexis Nexis, 14th Ed. Page 197-199) "The Legislature has the power to define a word even artificially. So the definition of a word in the definitions section may eit....

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....ssion 'includes' evinces, notwithstanding the meaning of the phrase, an intention: "to enlarge the meaning of the words or phrases occurring in the body of the statute". "Includes" is utilized so as to comprehend: "not only such things as they signify according to their nature and import but also those things which the interpretation clause declares that they shall include" However, when a....