Doctrine
Legal definition for Indian law research
Definition
Doctrine, is a rule of interpretation, it means that where some particular provision of statute offends against a constitutional limitation, but that provision is severable from the rest of the Statute, only that offending provision will be declared void by the court and not the entire statute, R.M.D.C. v. Union of India, AIR 1957 SC 628
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