The doctrine states that if a legislature makes a law that appears to be within its competence but in effect and substance lies beyond its ambit, it is void. It means “you cannot do indirectly, what you cannot do directly.”
The doctrine states that if a legislature makes a law that appears to be within its competence but in effect and substance lies beyond its ambit, it is void. It means “you cannot do indirectly, what you cannot do directly.”