...to the geographical position of any area, the nature of the supply and purpose for which the supply is required and any other relevant factors”. In construing this section the Supreme Court declined to apply the rule of ejusdem generis for limiting the ambit of “other relevant factors” on the...the words “for the purpose of a State or any other public purpose” in Section 6(4)(a) of the Bombay Land Requisition Act, 1948, the Supreme Court declined to apply the rule of ejusdem generis...Narasimha, learned Senior Counsel for the respondent has submitted that Clause 3.3(ix) has to be read ejusdem generis and hence a literal interpretation cannot be given to the words “or on any money due to...

...held to have been impliedly overruled by the Supreme Court.4. Even otherwise, on application of the rule of ejusdem generis, security, where it is provided in...definition. The word “security” appears in the company of activities relating to business and, therefore, it needs to be construed ejusdem generis with the expressions immediately preceding thereto...wholly irrelevant. This view taken by a learned single Judge of the High Court is not in keeping with the ruling rendered by the Apex Court in Ponds India Ltd. case (supra). The Hon’ble Supreme Court...

...disorderly conduct would warrant forfeiture of gratuity, either wholly or partly.21. In the case of Amarchandra Chakraborthy (supra), the Supreme Court was considering arguments based on the ejusdem generis rule...the rule of ejusdem generis.22. In the case of The Management of Toumamulla Estate v. Workmen (supra), the Supreme Court considered the issue of the forfeiture of...would be referred to the Labour Court. The Management denied gratuity to the workman on account of his riotous and disorderly behaviour and for having assaulted his supervisor. The Supreme Court...

...INDIA, AIR 1970 SC 540. But therein, the said rule of ejusdem generis was not made applicable because of the specific words that occurred in the Displaced Persons (Claims) Supplementary Act of 1954. The Supreme Court held: 13.This rule of interpretation generally known as ejusdem generis rule has been pressed into service on behalf...colour and strength from the earlier provisions and the rule of ejusdem generis would apply. We are conscious of the decision of the Supreme Court in the case of TRIBHUBAN PARKASH NAYYAR v. THE UNION OF...to be construed as a whole and that no words in a statute are presumed to be superfluous. Ejusdem Generis rule being one of the rules of interpretation, only serves, like all such rules, as an aid to...

...village panchayat or a town panchayat.16. The department seeks to include panchayat in the term 'municipality' by placing reliance on the ejusdem generis rule of interpretation...in Craies on Statute Law (7th edition, page 181) :'The ejusdem generis rule is one to be applied with caution and not pushed too far, as in the case of many decisions, which treat....'Thus unless you find a category there is no room for the application of the ejusdem generis doctrine and where the words are clearly wide in their meaning they ought not to be qualified on the ground...

...in this line of argument is the application of rule of ejusdem generis. In support, reliance is placed on the following observation of the Supreme Court in Amar Singh v. State of...Smt Lila Vati Bai v. State Of Bombay A.I.R 1957, S.C 521 529., the Supreme Court approved the following observation of the Court of appeal in the case of Skinner & Co. v. Shew and Co 1893 I Ch. 413.:—“The rule of ejusdem generis is intended to be applied where general words have been used following particular and specific words of the same nature on the...the various pleas raised in defence, on the question of the plaintiffs' right to use the land as the Khaliyan. The trial court interpreted Sec. 7aa of the U.P Zamindari Abolition and...

...Court in Chhajju Ram v. Neki1 as having to be read ejusdem generis with the earlier expressions error apparently on the... CS(COMM) 487/2021 Page 1 of 6 $~6 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI... 4. Paras 7 to 9 of the order under review, passed on 17 May 2023, read thus: "7. Mr. Rajiv Choudhary, learned Counsel for the...

...rescission of the Contract has to be filed within three years from the date when the right to apply for rescission accrues. I am fortified in my view by the Judgment of the Supreme Court in The Kerala State Electricity Board, Trivendrum v. T.P Kunhaliumma . 1976 4 SCC 634. In that case, the Supreme Court observed.“The words “any other application” under Article 137 cannot be said on the principle of ejusdem generis to..., Machilipatnam.4. On a consideration of the evidence on record, the trial court came to the conclusion that the plea of payment of the balance amount of consideration by the plaintiffs to the...pay, the vendor or lessor may apply in the same suit in which the decree is made, do have the contract rescinded and on such application the court may, by order, rescind the contract either so far as...

...statute. A purposive construction of an enactment has to be made. The learned Addl.P.P. has relied on the decision of Supreme Court in case of 14 Lokmat Newspapers Pvt. Ltd. .vrs. Shankarprasad - [1999] 6 SCC 275, to contend that the term 'etc' has to be interpreted by invoking the rule of ejusdem generis. On the...line, he has also relied on the decisions of Supreme Court in case of (1) S. Gopal Reddy .vrs. State of A.P. - AIR 1996 SC 2184 and (2) Amar Chandra Chakraborty .vrs. The Collector of Excise and others - [1972] 2 SCC 442. 15. On the other hand the learned defence counsel would submit that by applying the rule of ejusdem generis, the...the rule of ejusdem generis, initially we may refer to the decision of Supreme Court in case of Parakh Foods Limited .vrs. State of Andhra Pradesh and another...

...Constitution nad no application to a legislation deal-ing with preventive detention. Arts. 21 and 22 form a complete Code in this respect.6. Apart from the Supreme Court ruling Mr Dutt has also tried to support his argument on this point by invoking the principle of ejusdem generis. He...journal. The Supreme Court held that nothing less than serious and aggravated forms of public disorder endangering the foundations of the State or threatening its overthrow would justify curtailment of.... Moreover the case before the Supreme Court (Romesh Thappar v. State Of Madras) was quite different. The Supreme Court in that case had to...

...invited my attention to the decision of the Supreme Court in The Kerala Slate Electricity Board, Trivandrum v. T.P. Kunhaliumma Adverting to Article 137 of the Limitation Act, 1963, the Supreme Court has laid down that the expression "Any other application" used in Article 137 cannot be said on the principle of ejusdem generis to...Section 20 of the Arbitration Act. Therefore, the principle laid down by the Supreme Court in the case referred to above is applicable to the cases on hand. In my view, since the...make an application to the Court under Section 20 of the Arbitration Act, therefore, became extinct on account of the...

...was being prosecuted without sanction under the PC Act. The emphasis of the Supreme Court was on these facts. Nowhere has the Supreme Court laid down the law in Dilawar Singh that in sanction the role of each accused must be stated. This submission must, therefore, be rejected.24. Before we go to the doctrine of ejusdem generis in...Excise, Government of Tripura & Ors, AIR 1972 SC 1863. In that case, the Supreme Court was considering whether the words “any cause other than” found in Section 43 of the Bengal Excise Act, 1909 can be read ejusdem generis with the causes specified in clause (a) to (g) thereof. Section 42(1) stated the grounds on which...achieved by them also negative any intention of the legislature to attract the rule of ejusdem generis.”43. In McDowell & Co. on which Mr. Chitnis has placed reliance, the Supreme Court quoted...

...Hon'ble Supreme Court based on the principles of Ejusdem Generis has laid down the following essential components so that an institution or body can be included within the ambit of the term “local...referred to as 1986 Act) was in force. Applying the test as spelt out by the Hon'ble Supreme Court whether University would fall within the definition of “local authority”, the 1986 Act will have to be...show that the basic characteristics as spelt out by the Hon'ble Supreme Court stand fulfilled by the Kurukshetra University to be included in the term “local authority” as defined under the...

.... As against this, Mr. Amit Bansal, learned counsel appearing for the CBSE has relied on the judgment of the Supreme Court in Assistant Collector of Central Excise, Guntur v. Ramdev Tobacco Company, (1991) 2 SCC 119 which essentially deals with the principle of ejusdem generis. Mr. Bansal would seek to submit, that applying the said principle to the clause under consideration in the present case, the words "exceptional circumstances created on medical...expression "such as" is concerned, the words of the Supreme Court are clear, unambiguous and admitting of only one interpretation, i.e. that the conjunctive phrase "such as" indicates that the words which follow thereafter are to be treated as only illustrative, and not exhaustive. 22. Insofar as the principle of ejusdem generis, on which...diseases requiring long periods of hospitalization". In view thereof, there can be no question of applying the ejusdem generis principle in interpreting the words "exceptional circumstances created on medical grounds". Rather, as the said words are succeeded by the use of the 15 words "such as", the pronouncement of the Supreme Court in...

...Legislature of each of the States, which precede the word “authorities” in art. 12. The Supreme Court ruled that the High Court was in error in applying the principles of ejusdem generis for the purpose of interpreting the expression “other authorities” in art. 12 on the...bodies already named. The Supreme Court held that they are unable to find any common genus running through the bodies specified in art. 12 of the Constitution as the bodies referred to in the article cannot be placed in one single category on any rational basis. Accordingly, the Supreme Court held that the doctrine of ejusdem generis rule...support of his submission, he relied on the decision of the Supreme Court in Sukhdev Singh v. Bhagatram Sardar Singh Raghuvanshi...

...Lordships of the Supreme Court in para 9 considered the argument founded on the ejusdem generis rule. It was contended by Shri A.K Sen learned counsel for the appellant in the above case that the only way...the expression “any cause other than” in Section 43(1) ejusdem generis with the causes specified in clauses (a) to (g) of Sections 42(1). The Supreme Court repelled the...ejusdem generis rule as applied by the Supreme Court in George D. Costa v. Controller of Estate Duty Mysore (1) can be invoked for adopting such a construction. The same result can also...

...the Supreme Court in State of Bombay v. All Gulshan, (1955) 2 SCR 867: ((S) AIR 1955 SC 810). In that case also the Supreme Court was concerned with the applicability of the rule of ejusdem generis and Chandraskhara J., discussing the applicability of the rule, said on behalf...entertainment". The Court negatived the applicability of the ejusdem generis doctrine on the ground that no genus could be deduced from the mere word "theatre" which preceded the words "other places of...the Supreme Court: "With great respect, we are constrained to say that the ejusdem generis rule of construction, which...

...Supreme Court in the case of Collector Of Central Excise, Bombay v. Maharashtra Fur Fabrics Ltd.., reported in (2002) 7 SCC 444. Reliance is also placed on the principle of ejusdem generis on...ejusdem generis has been well settled by the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India in various judgments, including the judgments referred by us hereinabove and for this purpose we cannot do better than what...the Hon'ble Supreme court we apply the principle of ejusdem generis to clause (m) of sub-section (8) of Section 20 and are of the considered view that the present...

.... Yogesh Kumar Gupta - AIR 1998 SC 1021, on the same principle of ejusdem generis to interpret the words “or otherwise”, wherein in Paragraph No. 14, the Hon'ble Supreme Court has observed as under:-“We have no hesitation to say that any appointment to be made on a...generis and it must be interpreted to mean some kind of legal obligation or some transaction enforceable at law or in equity which, though not in the form of a contract, may confer a benefit on the donor.”14. Thereafter, Mr. Rana referred to another judgment of the Hon'ble Supreme Court in...will all be put on a par and that is what is intended by Rule 10.”A perusal of the above observations of the Supreme Court, clearly indicate that the judgment would support the private...