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Construction, 'construction' does not necessarily mean construction over the land which must rise above the surface of the land in all contingencies, Jnanedaya Yogam v. K.K. Pankajashy, AIR 1999 SC 3891 (3895): (1999) 9 SCC 492. [Land Acquisition Act, (1 of 1894), s. 40(1)(b)]

As to construction of statutes, see ACT OF PARLIAMENT; and of contracts, see Chitty on Contracts, Ch. v.; and of deeds, see Norton on Interpretation of Deeds.

Partem aliquam recte intelligere nemo potest, antequam totum, iterum atque iterum, perlegerit. 3 Rep. 52.--(No one can rightly understand any part until he has read the whole again and again.)

In contractibus benigna; in testamentis, benignior; in restitutionibus, benignissima interpretatio facienda est. Co. Lit. 112.--(In contracts, the construction ought to be liberal; in wills, more liberal; in restitutions, most liberal.)

Includes any construction in place of an existing building which has been wholly or substantially demolished, Lal Chand v. District Judge, Agra, (1999) 8 SCC 351.

The vast of the work was either construction or ancillary to construction and the items which were neither a comparatively small part of the whole scheme, Ivory Grove Ltd. v. Global Grange Ltd., (2003) 1 WLR 2090.