Statutory Interpretation

Book Details
• Book Name: [Title to be inserted]
• Writer: D.P. Mittal
• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN-13: 9789356033146
• Publisher: Commercial Law Publishers (India) Pvt. Ltd
• Description:
• Adapted from the author's comprehensive treatise on Interpretation of Statutes, this book is tailored for students, as well as busy advocates, officers, and legal administrators.
• Covers foundational legal concepts including supreme, subordinate, referential, and composite legislation, and judge-made law.
• Discusses important doctrines such as precedents, per incuriam, sub silentio, and constitutional principles like presumption of constitutionality, pith and substance, and colorable legislation.
• Explores interpretation principles like sententia legis, casus omissus, noscitur a sociis, and ejusdem generis.
• Details major interpretive rules: Literal, Golden, Mischief, and Purposive.
• Examines both internal aids (preamble, marginal notes, definition clauses, non-obstante clauses) and external aids (dictionaries, parallel statutes, legislative history, ministerial statements, etc.).
• Includes chapters on interpretation of ongoing acts, welfare and taxing legislations, as well as a collection of commonly used legal maxims and Latin phrases.