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It is difficult to reconcile the

worin of article 17 with those of Articles 10

and 14 (1) • These Articles clearly affect

the jurisdiction of the Court over british

Companies, and Article 17 says that nothing

in the order shall do so. men construing

the Articles no doubt the Court would be guid-

ed by the maxiım "generalia specialibus non

derogant" and hold that the later general

words do not modify Articles 10 and 14 though

in the instances given in Laxwell's "inter-

pretation of "tatutes”, where the above maxim

is discussed there is none where the general

and special words occur in the samo enkɑtment,

I think the meaning is that the

Ordinance applies to all companies and that

that with the order in Council supplies a co-

plete code for "chilom" and Longkong" companies,

but that as a great deal of the urder in Council

doed