Discussion
Which of the following is not an internal aid to the construction or interpretation of statute:-
Answer: C
The key treats marginal notes appended to a section as not an internal aid.
The long title, the preamble and the illustrations are all enacted parts of a statute, and courts regularly read them to resolve ambiguity. Illustrations in particular, as in the Indian Penal Code and the Evidence Act, are valuable guides to the meaning of a section.
Marginal notes stand on a weaker footing. The traditional rule, followed in many Supreme Court decisions, is that marginal notes are inserted by the draftsman and are not part of the statute, so they cannot control the plain meaning of the enacting words; at most they may be glanced at to see the drift of a section. That is why the paper singles them out.
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