“The next important case is In Re German Date Coffee Co. (1882) 20 Ch.D. 169, in which (at p.188) Lindley L.J. said as follows: “In construing this memorandum of association, or any other memorandum of association in which there are general words, care must be taken to construe those general words so as not to make them a trap for unwary people. General words construed literally may mean anything; but they must be taken in connection with what are shown by the context to be the dominant or main objects. It will not do under general words to turn a company for manufacturing one thing into a company for importing something else, however general the words are…”
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