JUDICIAL PRECEDENT/STARE DECISIS - Position of law on the application of previous decisions to later cases
HELD:
"It is well settled that in determining whether a decision qualifies as precedent, a Judge cannot just pick a sentence here and there, then build upon it because the essence of the decision is its ratio decidendi; and not every observation made in the Judgment.
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