Unit 6 of Legal Language including Legal Writing and General English (syllabus: Module 6). Below: what the unit covers, the provisions it turns on, and the cases an examiner expects you to name.
What this unit covers
- Which parts of an Act may be used to construe it?
- How far can the title, the preamble and a heading carry an argument?
- What does a definitions clause do, and when does it yield?
- Proviso, exception, Explanation, illustration, Schedule: which of them cuts down the section?
Treat that list as a self-test: recite each topic's rule from memory before you open its cases.
Leading cases
- Aswini Kumar Ghose v Arabinda Bose (SC
- A.C. Sharma v Delhi Administration (SC
- P. Kasilingam v P.S.G. College of Technology (SC
- S. Sundaram Pillai v V.R. Pattabiraman (SC