MARKAZ LAW COLLEGE

MARKAZ KNOWLEDGE CITY, KAYITHAPOYIL, CALICUT

LIST OF ASSIGNMENTS

Subject: Interpretation of Statutes and Principles of Legislation

Class: 8th Semester B.B.A., LL.B (Honours.)

Name of the Faculty: Rakesh P S

Last date for submission: 28th October, 2019.

Roll. No Topic
01 Definition and parts of statute
03 Commencement, Repeal and Removal of Legislation
04 Consolidating and Codifying Statutes
05 Literal rule of interpretation
06 Heydon’s Rule
08 Construction Ut res magis valeat quam pereat
10 Relevance of history of law in interpretation
11 Role of Government publications in interpretation
12 Scope of International conventions, Dictionaries and textbooks in interpretation
13 “Individual words are not considered in isolation, but may have their meaning
determined by other words in the section in which they occur.” Explain.
14 Relevance of previous and later statutes in interpretation
15 “Words of the statute must be construed in accordance with intention.” Explain.
16 Beneficial Construction
17 Restrictive Construction- Restrictive of operation
18 Restrictive Construction- Restriction to specific object
19 Presumption and Interpretation of Statutes- Mens rea
20 Comment on Warner’s case and Sweet v. Parsley
21 Quando aliquid prohibetur, prohibetur et omne per quod deveitur ad illud
23 Presumption against ousting jurisdiction
24 Presumption against intending injustice or absurdity
25 Retrospective operation of statutes
26 Equitable construction
27 Strict construction of penal statutes
28 Statutes encroaching on Rights or imposing burdens
29 Contemporanea expositio est fortis sima in lege
30 Construction of words In bonam partem
32 Noscittur a sociis
33 Expressio unius exclusion alterius
34 Ejusdem generis
35 Imperative and Directory Enactments
36 Absolute and Qualified duties, Impossibility of compliance
37 Waiver
38 Change of language and interpretation of statute
39 Modification of the language to meet the intention
40 Presumption against intending what is Inconvenient or Unreasonable.
41 Presumption against violation of International Law
42 Effects of statutes on Crown
43 Presumption against changes in Common Law
44 Treatment of general words during interpretation
45 Interpretation placed upon Acts of similar scope, Statutory instruments
46 Public and Private Remedies
47 Comment on Bhavnagar University v. Palitana Sugar Mills (Pvt) Ltd
49 Comment on Ispat Industries Ltd v. Commissioner of Customs
50 Rules as to interpretation of gender, number, time and distances
53 Explain the principle adopted in Ratansi Hirji v. Emperor
54 Explain the rule in Pengelly v. Bell Punch Co. Ltd
55 Reddendo singular singullis
56 Causa ommissus
58 Explain the principle adopted in Taylor v. Taylor
59 Explain the principle adopted in Bhiva Doulu Patil v. State of Maharashtra

Last date for submission: 28th October, 2019.

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Rakesh P S

Assistant Professor