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..... greater detail and observed : [AIR 1940 All 263, 269]. "I have, I confess, entertained some doubt as to what exactly the words 'specific provision' mean. I think first, that they must denote something different from the words 'express provision'. For a provision of a statute to be an 'express' provision affecting another statute or part of it, it would have, I think, to refer in so many words to .....

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..... Re Net Book Agreement, 1957, (1962) 3 All ER 751 (RPC)] Buckley, J., has interpreted the word 'specific' to mean explicit and definable. While Indian usage of English words often loses the Atlantic flavour and Indian Judges owe their fidelity to Indian meaning of foreign words and phrases, here East and West meet, and "specific" is specific enough to avoid being vague and general. Fowler regards t .....

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