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Shall be construed as

Shall be construed as, the words 'shall be construed as' mean 'shall be read as', State of Bombay v. Salat Pragji

Misconstrue

To construe wrongly to interpret erroneously

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Wills

(3) What are the formalities required in the execution of a wills. (4) How wills are to be construed. The first s. enacts that the word 'will' shall extend to a testament, and to a codicil and

Shall

of anything contrary in the context indicating that a permissive interpretation is permissible, the statute ought to be construed as peremptory, G.C. Patel v. Agricultural Produce Market Committee, (1975) 2 SCC 482: Re Panchami, (1981) LW (Cr)

Family

to a raiyat who is a woman, reference in clause (c) to wife's son or daughter, shall be construed as reference to the husband's son or daughter, respectively of such woman. The legislature on a correct perspective

Includes

minor ingredient or element, (Collins Dictionary of English Language). Is used in an interpretation clause, it must be construed as comprehending not only such things as they signify according to their nature and import but also those

Writing

Writing, in any Act of Parliament, shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be construed as including printing, lithography, photography, and other modes of representing or reproducing words in a visible form, Interpretation

Vegetable

4] Vegetable, cannot be given the comprehensive meaning as it bears in natural history, and it must be construed in popular sense to denote such classes of vegetable matter which are grown in kitchen gardens or in

Act of Parliament

(English) Acts of Parliament (Expiration) Act, 1808 (48 Geo. 3, c. 106). (2) A statute is to be construed according to the intent and object with which it was made, and not according to the mere letter;

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