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    Ejusdem generis

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    A of specified kind Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B of the same kind Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C specific, not general Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D general, not specific Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    E Of particular kind Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

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    Ejusdem generis is a secondary/subsidiary rule of interpretation which literally means of the same kind or same nature. The rule of Ejusdem Generis is intended to be applied where general words have been used following particular and specific words of the same nature on the established rule of construction that the legislature presumed to use the general words in a restricted sense that is to say, as belonging to the same genus as the particular and specific words. Snapshot –Topic covered in notes for SEBI Legal Course of ixamBee

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