PRADEEP NANDRAJOG
OIL AND NATURAL GAS CORPORATION LTD. – Appellant
Versus
SCHLUMBERGER ASIA SERVICES LTD. – Respondent
PRADEEP NANDRAJOG, J.
( 1 ) "when I use a word" Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I chose it to mean " nothing more nor less" " Lewis Carrol: through the Looking Glass.
( 2 ) TO assimilate the way in which documents are interpreted by applying common sense principles to interpret serious utterances as would be understood in ordinary life is a fairly complex process, though at first blush any person would say, after all, language is a means of communication; language evolved thousands of years ago; surely, humankind must have perfected the art of communication and therefore where is the difficulty in understanding what parties meant by their utterances.
( 3 ) BUT since the word "ambiguity" is itself not precise and itself is flexible, removing ambiguity in words, to clarify the meaning, becomes a fairly complex task. Ambiguity may arise from doubts as to the meaning of a word used in totality of the ordinary well understood meaning. It may arise from the diversity of subjects to which a word may in the circumstances be applied. It may arise from obscurity as to the full expression in arriving at its conclusion.
( 4 ) CONSTRUCTION of a document as
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