vice versa
Meaning. The other way round; with the order or relationship reversed.
Used in drafting and judgments to show that a statement applies equally when its terms are swapped. “The landlord shall give notice to the tenant and vice versa” means each must give notice to the other.
Drafters prefer to spell out both directions where precision matters, because “vice versa” can be unclear when more than two terms are involved. The General Clauses Act, 1897 achieves a similar result for gender and number (words in the singular include the plural and vice versa).
Example
Under Section 13 of the General Clauses Act, words importing the masculine gender include the feminine, and words in the singular include the plural and vice versa.
In Indian law
- Section 13, General Clauses Act, 1897 (gender and number)
See also
Read more in the study notes
- Relevance of judgments of courts (sections 34 to 38) (Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam)
- Memorandum of association and the doctrine of ultra vires (Company Law)
- Types of sentences and transformation of sentences (English)
- Author, ownership, term of copyright, rights conferred and moral rights (Intellectual Property Rights II)
- Jurisprudence: meaning, nature, scope, purpose and value (Jurisprudence)
- Protected works and the economic rights of the author (Law of Copyrights)