In Amar Chandra Chakraborty v. Collector of Excise, Tripura (1972), the Supreme Court described the…
The Court said that the ejusdem generis rule "strives to reconcile the incompatibility between specific and general words", so that all the words in the provision have…
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In Amar Chandra Chakraborty v. Collector of Excise, Tripura (1972), the Supreme Court described the purpose of the ejusdem generis rule. According to the Court, the rule:
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The Court said that the ejusdem generis rule "strives to reconcile the incompatibility between specific and general words", so that all the words in the provision have effect. It does not require general words to be read in their widest sense; it usually narrows them to the class named before them.
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