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Judicial definitions, judicial definitions are not statutory definitions; they are mere explanatory and not definitive. Therefore, every word of the judicial definition should not be weighed in golden scales. The tendency is to try to interpret the langu-age implode by the judges in the judicial definition as if it has been transformed into a statutory definition. That is wrong. Always, words and expressions to be interpreted are those employed in the statute and not those used by judges for felicitous explanation, S.P. Mittal v. Union of India, AIR 1983 SC 1: (1983) 1 SCC 51: (1983) 1 SCR 729.