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Discarding even their legal or dictionary meaning courts generally look to the context in which words and phrases are used in legal parlance shorn of ambiguity. Draftsmans use of such words and phrases have often been placed under the scrutiny of the courts of law and the Supreme Court had occasions to cons and record meanings of different words and phrases in innumerable decisions.A significant improvementIn the earlier editions of this work definitions given to words and phrases by the Supreme Court were set out with reference to particular statutes only. But in the present edition, besides incorporations such enunciations as made by the Supreme Court, the root-meaning of each such word and phrase has been stated. In other words, all such words and phrases have now received separate treatment covering the key-meanings thereof so that readers may comprehend the meaning and use them in appropriate cases.A trusted companionThis edition covers a sizeable body of case laws of the Supreme Court and corresponding cross-reference to the decisions besides providing a list of judgments affirmed, over-ruled and dissented from. It is in the nature of a lexicon with a difference making it a trusted companion to legal practitioners.