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Namely, has been stated 'that is to say, explicitly, specifically to wit, on item of legislation, namely-certain bail, Webster's Encyclopadic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language.

Namely, has been stated as 'A difference, in grammatical sense, in strictness exists between the words namely and including. Namely imports interpretation i.e. indicates what is included in the previous term; but including imports addition i.e. indicates something not included, Black's Law Dictionary, 5th Edn.

Namely, means 'by name' or, that is to say, Re Brockett, (1908) 1 Ch 185.

Namely, the word 'namely' imports enumeration of what is comprised in the preceding clause. In other words it ordinarily serves the purpose of equating what follows with the clause described before, State of Bombay v. Bombay Education Society, AIR 1954 SC 561 (565): (1955) SCR 568.