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Definition :

Concurrent list, is also known as List III, Constitution of India, Art. 254(i).

Is a list of subjects appended to a federal Constitution in respect of which the federal legislature and the State or the regional legislatures have power to make laws, federal law prevailing in case of conflicts, The Office of the Speaker in the Parliaments of Commonwealth, Wilding and Philips Laundry, p. 132.

The object of a concurrent list of subjects over which the centre and the units have concurrent power is uniformity, Commentary on the Constitution of India, Durga Das Basu, Vol. 4, 5th Edn., p. 178.

The question of repugnancy arises in case of subjects enumerated in concurrent list, Deep Chand v. State of Uttar Pradesh, AIR 1959 SC 648.