By G P SINGH

Enacted Laws, especially the modern Acts and Rules, are drafted by legal experts and it could be expected that the language used will leave little room for interpretation or construction. But the experience of all those, who have to bear and share the task of application of the law, has been different. It is quite often that we find courts and lawyers busy in unfolding the meaning of ambiguous words and expressions and resolving inconsistencies. The age old process of application of the enacted law has led to formulation of certain rules of interpretation or construction. Words in any language are not scientific symbols having any precise or definite meaning, and language is but an imperfect medium to convey one\\\'s thought, much less of a large assembly consisting of persons of various shades of opinion. It is impossible even for the most imaginative legislature to forestall exhaustively situations and circumstances that may emerge after enacting a statute where its application may be called for. The function of the courts is only to expound and not to legislate. The numerous rules of interpretation or construction formulated by courts are expressed differently by different judges and support may be found in these formulations for apparently contradictory propositions.

The present new edition of the book is designed to rationalise the subject of statutory interpretation and to offer new methods by which the practitioner can tackle it. The book sets statutory interpretation in both Indian and Foreign historical background and outlines the views of the great jurists. The basic rules are illustrated and followed by discussion of internal and external aids to construction and of presumption. The present edition is brought up-to-date with case-law both Indian and Foreign, nearly 1000 new cases are added and discussed at length under appropriate Chapters.

Justifiably, the book stands without a rival in its searching and educative comments, in its orderly arrangement and in its erudite comprehensiveness. It bears the impress of a master mind that unfolds the intricacies of various provisions An Opinion Paucis Verbis

Justice G.P. Singh’s Principles of Statutory Interpretation is one of the select band of works which cannot be fairly discussed without using superlatives. In the context of Law, it is yet another legal classic packed with deep, rich and penetrating study of the author on the subject. Analytical, exhaustive, original and authoritative – the book will remain a leading commentary on this important branch of law and of exceptional merit. Justifiably, the book stands without a rival in its searching and educative comments, in its orderly arrangement and in its erudite comprehensiveness. It bears the impress of a master mind that unfolds the intricacies of various provisions A Reader’s Tribute

Published Year: 2006 Format: Hard Back ISBN: INSI1 Publisher: Lexis Nexis Butterworths Wadhwa Nagpur No of Pages: 1460 Our Price: India. Rs. 2,295.00 Reviews: 0 reivew(s).

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