The Supreme Court case Registrar Cane Cooperative Societies v. Gurdeep Singh Narval addresses the legal status of...
Statute Interpretation
The Court held that restitution under the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act (MVRA) constitutes criminal punishment for Ex...
The 1787 Constitution creates a federal government of limited, enumerated powers: Congress may act only under authorities...
Section 8 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 promotes judicial minimalism by mandating courts to refer...
The Supreme Court of India emphasized understanding the testator's intention, giving effect to every provision, and avoiding...
PUNCTUATION.—The punctuation is no part of an Act of Parliament. In the case of Barrow v. Wadkin,...
What authority has the Master of the Rolls for saying that the courts do look at the...
The Archivist of the United States shall cause to be compiled, edited, indexed, and published, the United...
All acts of limitation, whether applicable to civil causes and proceedings, or to the prosecution of offenses,...
The repeal of any statute shall not have the effect to release or extinguish any penalty, forfeiture,...
Whenever an Act is repealed, which repealed a former Act, such former Act shall not thereby be...
Each section shall be numbered, and shall contain, as nearly as may be, a single proposition of...
In interpreting a taxing statute, equitable considerations are entirely out of place. A taxing statute cannot be...
The challenged to the validity of a Statute on the ground that it is a colourable piece...