Exposition ex visceribus actus

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....bus actus is a long recognised rule of construction. Words in a statute often take their meaning from the context of the statute as a whole. They are therefore, not to be cons trued in isolation. For ....

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....n two interpretations", said Viscount Simon L.C. in Nokes v. Doncaster Amalgamated Collieries, Ltd,(1) "the narrower of which would fail to achieve the manifest purpose of the legislation we should av....