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…................PETITIONER VERSUS Z N K......................................RESPONDENT JUDGMENT The petitioner herein married the respondent at the Registrar General’s office Nairobi in 1975 as per the annexed marriage certificate…

…but before this they had been married under Muslim Law but as the certificate cannot be recognized they had to get a certificate under the Marriage Act.…

…certificate as provided by section 22 and 35, enter in the register and endorse on the grant or certificate a memorandum of the transfer, and deliver the grant or certificate with that memorandum shall be as effectual for…

…the purpose of evidencing title, and for all other purposes of this Act, as if the grant or old certificate had been cancelled and a new certificate had been issued to the transferee in his own name, and the foregoing process…

…A dispute has since arisen between the DR and the sub-contractor on accounts of the DR refusing to approve certain certificates raised by the sub-contractor.…

…The contractor therefore is entitled to refer to the DR’s actions relating to the withholding of any certificates due whether from him or his agent if he claims to be entitled to such certificate as he is the principal of…

…The certificate was dated the April 23, 1987 and, seventeen months before that would put the applicant’s illness to about December, 1985.…

…I cannot help feeling that a medical certificate which is so imprecise as to the date of a patient’s disability for which the certificate seeks to vouch, is, to put it mildly suspect.…

…The Certificate of Delay included in the original appeal which was struck out and the one attached to the present application states in paragraph 6 as follows: "By letter dated 20th May 1998 the Advocates were notified that…

…Rule 81 under which the Certificate of Delay has been issued provides for an extension in respect not of certified copies but merely copies.…

…She also attached all birth certificates for three children which got lost in the parcel as well as a marriage certificate which she said she would obtain copies by paying a total of Kshs 1,800/-.…

…There was no real dispute about the replacement of the birth certificates and marriage certificates although the plaintiff does not appear to have proved the amounts claimed by tendering relevant notices of cost to show the…

…His death certificate PEx2 shows cause of death to have been Acute Peritonitis Post Abdominal injury of the bowels consistent with bullet wound. He was 21.…

…Damages: Special damages proved are: - (i) Death Certificate Kshs. 100.00 (ii) Broadcasting Kshs. 600.00 (iii) Coffin Kshs. 8,000.00 Sub Total Kshs.8,700.00 As to quantum, it is noted that the deceased died after sometime…

…without firearm certificate.…

…firearm certificate.…

…Neither the applicant nor the respondent's advocate exhibited a copy of such certificate but during the hearing of the application it was common ground that such a certificate had been given.…

…The applicant, however, contends that the certificate of delay, a copy of which he had and read a part of it to us, is invalid in as much as it covered the period between 3rd and 11th July, 1997.…

…Ngugi submitted that she was waiting for the Certificate of Delay. She, however, read the rule 81 and freely and frankly agreed that there was no ambiguity in the rule. Nor was it capable of a misinterpretation.…

…It did not extend to certificate of delay. In the circumstances, I see no mistake. None was alleged either in the Notice of Motion or in the supporting affidavit. Mrs.…

…Lepelley correctly points out, a certificate of delay is only required in respect of proceedings. There was accordingly no occasion to look for a certificate of delay.…

…He submitted to the Court a certificate in support of that submission.…

…Turning to the issue of the health of the applicant which was dealt with at length by Mr Khaminwa, I must point out that at nowhere has Dr Mngola said in his certificate that the applicant suffers from uncontrollable diabetes…

…Hence, it is immaterial that a certificate of delay was acquired during the course of the hearing of this application. The Registrar should be more careful in certifying delay.…

…His certificate covers the period from December 10, 1985 to May 23, 1986. It should surely have ended on February 26, 1986 at the latest.…

…The applicants seem to have been shopping from one firm of advocates to another and the delay exhibited in not filing the appeal within time, as illustrated by the Certificate of Delay which is attached to the affidavit in…

…As regards the fact that the certificate of delay cannot be relied upon for the purpose of Rule 31(1) and (2) of the Rules of this court because the request letter for it was not copied to the respondent, I would say that…

…(iv) That the charge instrument dated 20.5.1998 lacks the essential mandatory Advocates Certificate required under Section 69 (4) of the Transfer of Property Act to enable the defendant exercise its Statutory Power of Sale…

…The affidavit has numerous annextures including copies of a certificate of Title of the suit property, pleadings in HCCC No.82 of 2006 between Matex Commercial Supplies Ltd and the defendant, a Ruling of Warsame J in the…

…(b) The Architect shall direct the Contractor as to the total value of the work, materials or goods executed or supplied by a nominated sub-contractor included in the calculation of the amount stated as due in any certificate…

…The sum representing such total value shall be paid by the contractor to the nominated sub-contractor within 14 days of receiving from the Architect the certificate less only (i) any retention money which the contractor may…

…Macharia for the applicant informs me that they obtained the proceedings on the 26th April, 1996; they, however, have not obtained a certificate of delay from the High Court to vouch-safe for that contention.…

…Again no certificate of delay has been placed before me to show when the criminal proceedings were supplied to the applicant.…

…Together with the application, they lodged an application under a certificate of urgency for an injunction to restrain the defendants from interfering with the suit property or levying any distress thereon.…

…to be signed by the owner of the goods or an adult person residing or working at the premises where the goods are attached or repossessed, and where any person refuses to sign such inventory the auctioneer shall sign a certificate…

…In the circumstances the application would be determined on merits without any time being excluded by the Registrar’s certificate. 3.…

…In these circumstances we have to determine the application, on its merits without any time being excluded by the registrar’s certificate.…