"The expression 'subject to' in a document or enactment is used to assign a subordinate position to a clause or section of an enactment or provide qualification. It confers a...
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"The said Decree No. 33 of 1976 has no retroactive effect and did not therefore affect exhibit 9 which was published on the 16th November, 1972. In my view, it...
"It is settled law that expropriatory statutes which encroach on a person's proprietary rights must be construed fortissime contra preferentes that is strictly against the acquiring authority but sympathetically in...
"It is a cardinal principle in the construction of a statute that where the words of a statute are clear or unambiguous, those words shall be so construed as to...
"I decline to read into any enactment words which are not to be found there, and which would alter its operative effect because of provisions to be found in any...
"It is a well established principle of interpretation of statutes that where the provision of any law ousts the jurisdiction of court on any matter such a provision shall be...
"There is no doubt at all that section 11 (ibid) sought to oust the jurisdiction of the court to entertain matters in respect of registered shareholders in banks. Therefore being...
"The law is that where there is a special provision in a statute, a later general provision in the same statute capable of covering the same subject-matter is not to...
"Under this decision, the provisions of section 134 of the Electoral Act are exhaustive. An election or return cannot be questioned on any issue outside the provision of section 134...
"A court which, in the exercise of its interpretative jurisdiction, imports a statute to another statute when the enabling statute does not anticipate such importation, will be said to be...
"I think the proper course in the first instance is to examine the language of the statute and to ask what is the natural meaning, uninfluenced by any considerations derived...
"As a general rule, a proviso has a limited operation in qualifying the ambit of the section to which it is related. It follows that where a section with a...
