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Colourable legislation

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Colourable

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Regulation

have any inflexible meaning as to exclude 'prohibition'. It has different shades of meaning and must take its colour from the context in which it is used having regard to the purpose and object of the legislation,

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Husband

Edn., p. 746. Husband, the expression husband cover a person who enters into marital relationship and under the colour of such proclaimed or feigned status of husband subjects the woman concerned to cruelty or coerces her in … purview of s. 304B or 498A, I.P.C. viewed in the content of very object and aim of the legislations introducing those provisions [Indian Penal Code, 1860, ss. 498A and 304B; Evidence Act, 1872, s. 113B], Reema Aggarwal

Vest

sense, as indicated in the context in which it may have been used in a particular piece of legislation, Fruit and Vegetable Merchants Union v. Delhi Improvement Trust, AIR 1957 SC 344 (356): (1957) SCR 1. [U.P. … Ganges Rope. Co. Ltd., (2004) 1 SCC 663 (680). It is well-settled that the meaning of 'vest' takes colour from the context in which it is used and it is not necessarily the same in every provision

Public prosecutor

Punj 177. Public purpose, has to be construed according to the spirit of the time in which particular legislation is enacted, State of Bihar v. Kameshwar Singh, AIR 1952 SC 252. Public purpose, include the purpose in … of judicial inclusion and exclusion. In other words, the definition of the expression is elastic and takes its colour from the statute in which it occurs, the concept varying with the time and state of society and

Residence

SC 3127. Residence, is flexible and must be construed accord-ing to the object and intent of the particular legislation where it may be found. It must be something more than occupation during occasional usual visits within the … The word 'reside' is a flexible one and has many shades of meaning, but it must take its colour and content from the context in which it appears and cannot be read in isolation, Jeewanti Pandey v.

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