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In Siddeshwari Cotton Mills (P) Ltd v. Union of India (1989), the Supreme Court construed the words…

The Court held that the verbal context and the preceding words limit the scope of residuary words, so the general words must share one or the other of the incidents of…

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In Siddeshwari Cotton Mills (P) Ltd v. Union of India (1989), the Supreme Court construed the words 'any other process' in the extended definition of manufacture, which followed processes such as bleaching, mercerising and dyeing of fabrics. It held that:

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The Court held that the verbal context and the preceding words limit the scope of residuary words, so the general words must share one or the other of the incidents of bleaching, mercerising and dyeing. Reading them to cover every process ignores the class formed by those named processes.

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