Cannot

Cannot, The word 'cannot' emphatically connotes a situation of impasse. In Shorter Oxford Dictionary, 3rd Edn., at page 255, the word 'can' is defined as 'to be able; to have power or capacity'. The word 'cannot', therefore, would mean 'not to be able' or 'not to have the power or capacity'. In Stroud's Judicial Dictionary, 5th Edn., the word 'cannot' is defined to include a legal inability as well as physical impossibility, S.R. Bommai v. Union of India (1994) 3 SCC 1: AIR 1994 SC 1918 (1970). (Constitution of India, Art. 356)