Interpretation - Judgment Search Results

State of Karnataka Vs. Union of India (Uoi) and anr.

Court: Supreme Court of India

Reported in: AIR1978SC68; (1977)4SCC608; [1978]2SCR1

..... of the nation 117 hegde and mukherjea jj also considered at length principles of interpretation and construction in this country and in the commonwealth countries they distinguished earlier cases ..... upon the constitution inevitably leading to what professor sawer has described as an expansive interpretation of federal powers for it followed from the principle that dominion and colonial legislative .....

Yashinkhan Ahmedkhan and ors. Vs. Hushanbhai Rajabbhai and ors.

Court: Gujarat

Reported in: (1978)19GLR175

..... the words attended by occurring in that provision must of necessity receive a wider interpretation the narrow interpretation put upon it by the calcutta and bombay high courts that criminal force must ..... of the offence amending this provision the legislature was certainly widening its original scope as interpreted by the calcutta and bombay high courts in this changed situation therefore it would not .....

Nathu Manchhu Vs. the State of Gujarat

Court: Gujarat

Reported in: AIR1978Guj49; 1978CriLJ448; (1977)GLR1041

..... xii of the code these considerations also fortify the aforesaid approach 17 a the second interpretation whicb makes substantive evidence of witness inadmissible at the trial is based on occurrence of ..... box these facts are objective facts on the establishment of which according to the second interpretation the evidence given bv the witness becomes inadmissible these objective facts are three viz i .....

United Air Lines, Inc. Vs. Mcmann

Court: US Supreme Court

..... in apparent disregard of settled principles of statutory construction it gives an unduly narrow interpretation to a congressional enactment designed to remedy arbitrary discrimination in the workplace because ..... premise in my view the statutory language is susceptible of at least two interpretations and the only reading consonant with congressional intent would preclude involuntary retirement of .....

The Commissioner of Income-tax, Gujarat, Ahmedabad Vs. Kamalini Khatau

Court: Gujarat

Reported in: AIR1978Guj162; [1978]112ITR652(Guj)

..... given tinder the income tax law must apply equally in the interpretation of section 21 since the relevant provisions of both the ..... no reason in principle why it should not receive a liberal interpretation lord wrenbury observed in his speech in this case the ..... not think that we would be justified in departing from the interpretation placed by the madras high court in vishwanathan chettlar s case .....

Batterton Vs. Francis

Court: US Supreme Court

..... congress entrust to the secretary rather than to the courts the primary responsibility for interpreting the statutory term in exercising that responsibility the secretary adopts regulations with legislative effect ..... paid by employers to employees should be treated as wages except as such interpretive power may be included in the agencies administrative functions congress did neither an agency .....

Nixon Vs. Administrator of General Services

Court: US Supreme Court

..... similarly are executive branch employees appellant s argument is in any event based on an interpretation of the separation of powers doctrine inconsistent with the origins of that doctrine recent ..... the performance of assigned constitutional duties each branch of the government must initially interpret the constitution and the interpretation of its powers by any branch is due great respect from the .....

Teamsters Vs. United States

Court: US Supreme Court

..... accordingly under longstanding principles of statutory construction the act should be given a liberal interpretation and exemptions from its sweep should be narrowed and limited to effect the remedy ..... dependent on whites benefiting from unlawful discrimination thus the paragraph of the clark case interpretive memorandum dealing with seniority systems begins title vii would have no effect on .....

Rosebud Sioux Tribe Vs. Kneip

Court: US Supreme Court

..... tribe when the evidence concerning congressional intent is palpably ambiguous erodes the general principles for interpreting indian statutes i what is perhaps most striking about the rosebud acts in light ..... while leaving the indians with a host of rights in the counties but this interpretation of the statutes is surely strained especially since nothing in the legislative history indicates .....

Piper Vs. Chris-craft Industries, Inc.

Court: US Supreme Court

..... of shareholder offerees by the elimination of the purchaser seller restriction can scarcely be interpreted as giving protection to the entirely separate and unrelated class of persons whose ..... aimed especially at protecting shareholders of target corporations the williams act cannot consistently be interpreted as conferring a monetary remedy upon regulated parties particularly where the award would .....