Import and Export

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...."export" from the Latin word exportare which means "to carry out" but these words were not to be interpreted only according to their literal derivations. Lexico-logically these do not have any reference to goods in "transit" a word derived from transire bearing a meaning similar to transport, i.e., to go across. The dictionary meaning of the words "import" and "export" is not restricted to their d....

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....t any reference to the ordinary connotation of these words as used in the commercial sense, the decided cases in India have ascribed too general a meaning to these words which it appears from the setting, context and history of the clause was not intended. The effect of the construction of 'import' or 'export' in the manner insisted upon by the respondent would make rail-borne go....