In Carew and Company Ltd. v. Union of India [(1975) 2 SCC 791], Justice Krishna Iyer, opined: "21. The law is not "a brooding omnipotence in the sky" but a pragmatic instrument of social order. It is an operational art controlling economic life, and interpretative effort must be imbued with the statutory purpose. No doubt, grammar is a good guide to meaning but a bad master to dictate. Notwithstanding the traditional view that grammatical construction is the golden rule, Justice Frankfurter used words of practical widom when he observed "There is no surer way to misread a document than to read it literally.""
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