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Text, the word 'text', in its dictionary meaning, means 'subject or theme'. When an enactment amends the text of another, it amends the subject or theme of it, though sometimes it may expunge unnecessary words without altering the subject. The word 'text' is comprehensive enough to take in the subject as well as the terminology used in a statute, Jethanand Betab v. State of Delhi, AIR 1960 SC 89 (92): (1960) 1 SCR 755. (General Clause Act, 1897, s. 6A)...
Text book
Text book, involve either some original matter contributed and published by the author, or it may even include an intelligent selection of the work of another author or authors for use in schools. It may also include some books which have been copyrighted, if the scheme of the book or books involves a graduated or considered study or training in the particular subject like say, books of drawing, it might be said to be a textbook, Gopala Chetty v. Director of Public Instruction, Mysore, AIR 1955 Mys 81: 1955 ILR Mys 203.A legal treatise which lays down principles or collects decisions on any branch of the law--e.g., Mayne on Damages; Chitty on Contracts, etc.; Darton Vendors and Purchasers. They are, of course, not binding on the Court, but some of them are by general consent treated as guiding authorities: see Ecclesiastical Commissioners v. Parr, (1894) 2 QB 428, per Lord Esher, M.R. Text-books written by living authors who are practising barristers are not cited in the courts as auth...
Recommendation and prescription
Recommendation and prescription, there is a basic distinction between recommendation and pres-cription of a text book. When a text book is pres-cribed by an appropriate authority having legal power to do so, it has to be followed by the schools. Prescription of a text book carries with it a binding obligation to follow the text book. There is no such obligation when a text book is merely recommen-ded. Recommendation has merely a persuasive effect, it being open to the schools to accept the recommendation or to reject it as they think fit, Naraindas Indurkhya v. State of Madhya Pradesh, AIR 1974 SC 1232: (1974) 4 SCC 788: (1974) 3 SCR 624....
palimpsest
A parchment which has been written upon twice the first writing having been erased to make place for the second The erasures of ancient writings were usually carried on in monasteries to allow the production of ecclesiastical texts such as copies of church services and lives of the saints The difficulty of recovering the original text varied with the process used to prepare the parchment for a fresh writing the original texts on parchments which had been washed with lime water and dried were easily recovered by a chemical process but those erased by scraping the parchment and bleaching are difficult to interpret Most of the manuscripts underlying the palimpsests that have been revived are fragmentary but some are of great historical value One Syriac version of the Four Gospels was discovered in 1895 in St Catherines Monastery at Mount Sinai by Mrs Agnes Smith Lewis See also the notes below...
cancel
cancel -celed or: -celled -cel·ing or: -cel·ling 1 : to destroy the force, validity, or effectiveness of: as a : to render (one's will or a provision in one's will) ineffective by purposely making marks through or otherwise marring the text of compare revoke NOTE: The text of the will or of the will's provision need not be rendered illegible in order for a court to find that there was an intent to cancel it. b : to make (a negotiable instrument) unenforceable esp. by purposely marking through or otherwise marring the words or signature of NOTE: As stated in section 3-604 of the Uniform Commercial Code, a party that is entitled to enforce a negotiable instrument may cancel the instrument, whether or not for consideration, and discharge the obligation of the other party to pay. c : to mark (a check) to indicate that payment has been made by the bank NOTE: A check is no longer negotiable once it has been cancelled. d : to withdraw an agreement to honor (a letter of cr...
infra
infra : in the following text : below [see textual discussion accompanying note 22 "D. Q. Posin"] used in books, articles, and cases to refer the reader to later pages, sections, or footnotes of the text compare idem, supra ...
deconstruction
A philosophical theory of criticism usually of literature or film that seeks to expose deep seated contradictions in a work by delving below its surface meaning This method questions the ability of language to represent a fixed reality and proposes that a text has no stable meaning because words only refer to other words that metaphysical or ethnocentric assumptions about the meaning of words must be questioned and words may be redefined in new contexts and new equally valid and even contradictory meanings may be found Such new interpretations may be based on the philosophical political or social implications of the words of a text rather than solely on attempts to determine the authors intentions...
Paragraph
Originally a marginal mark or note set in the margin to call attention to something in the text e g a change of subject now the character para commonly used in the text as a reference mark to a footnote or to indicate the place of a division into sections...
Paraphrase
A restatement of a text passage or work expressing the meaning of the original in another form generally for the sake of its clearer and fuller exposition a setting forth the signification of a text in other and ampler terms a free translation or rendering opposed to metaphrase...
A rubro ad nigrum
A rubro ad nigrum. To proceed to the sense of the text in a statute by looking at the title; the title was written in red, the text in black...
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