INTRODUCTION TO INTERPRETATION OF STATUTES

The rules of interpretation are drawn from the general scope and intention of the instrument or legislation, from the nature of the transaction or the circumstances, from the legal rights of the parties independent of the instrument or law in question, and from many other relevant particulars. Interpretation is the process which is adopted for determination of the meaningof a writing, to determine from its known elements its meaning or the intent of the framers of the documents. It is the art of finding out the sense of any form of words, the sense which their author intended to convey. This art enables others to derive from the words the same idea which the author intended to convey and thereby to find out or collect the intention of a writer. The process involved is such that one source speaks something and another source picks it up, discovers its meaning and applies it to do justice between others. It is not a science but an art to find out the meaning of words in the context of a givensituation. It is to this field of art that the present study is dedicated to enable those who are interested in knowing the elements of the subject.