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Case Law
3174 cases across 17 courts
3174 cases
Citation pending | 1951-12-20
Croom-Johnson J made a number of declarations, including a declaration that the resolutions of 24 September 1947, and 12 July 1948, were ultra vires. He found that all the defendants had a cted bona fide and without...
Citation pending | 1951-12-12
On 3 July 1940, gold belonging to a Dutch banking company was transferred from safe deposit in London to the Custodian of Enemy Property by a vesting order made by the Board of Trade under the Trading with the Enemy...
Citation pending | 1951-12-07
The matter is, in my mind, a lmost concluded by authority, by Miller v William Boothman & Sons Ltd, Nicholls v Austin (Leyton) Ltd and Franklin v Gramophone Co Ltd. Those cases were dealing with other regulations, but...
Citation pending | 1951-12-06
MCNAIR J read the following judgment. This case, which comes before me for the determination of a preliminary point of law under RSC, Ord 25, r 2, raises in a neat form the question whether a husband can during
Citation pending | 1951-12-03
By his will, dated 8 October 1942, the testator directed his trustees out of his residuary estate to pay the sum of £10 a week free of income tax to his son M during his life on protective trusts. The testator died on...
Citation pending | 1951-11-29
Estate Duty – Incidence – Portions charged by will on property reversionary at date of testator ’ s death – Duty exigible on death of life tenant – Liability of portioners to be charged with duty – Finance Act, 1894 (c...
Citation pending | 1951-11-28
VAISEY J read the following judgment. The plaintiff in this action is the Attorney-General suing on the relation of Automobile Proprietary Ltd the owner of the Royal Automobile Club. The relator is not joined as a...
Citation pending | 1951-11-07
By his will, dated 22 October 1942, a testator devised and bequeathed his estate to his executor, a bank, on trust for sale and conversion with power to postpone sale, and directed “that the income of such of the same...
Citation pending | 1951-10-25
By her will, dated 15 October 1938, the testatrix a ppointed executors and bequeathed all her jewellery and personal chattels as defined in the Administration of Estates Act, 1925, to her sister a bsolutely and free of...
Citation pending | 1951-10-22
The tenant, while a member of the Royal Air Force, occupied premises, the property of the Air Ministry. On his discharge from the Air Force he was given two months ’ notice to quit. He failed to leave the premises and...
Citation pending | 1951-10-16
An appeal to the High Court under s 6(5) of the Veterinary Surgeons Act, 1948, against the refusal of the council of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons to register a person ’ s name in the supplementary...
Citation pending | 1951-10-16
This point was raised before Willmer J in HMS Truculent Admiralty v The Divina (Owners). In my opinion he deals correctly with it. I propose to follow his decision and that a nswers this case in favour of the shipowner...
Citation pending | 1951-10-05
On 20 April 1951, at a court of summary jurisdiction sitting at Peterborough, an information was preferred by the a ppellant, a superintendent of police, under s 62 of the Offences against the Person Act, 1861,...
Citation pending | 1951-07-30
Appeal by the plaintiff from an order of McNair J dated 8 February 1951, and reported [1951] 1 AllER 569, in an action for a declaration that the plaintiff was entitled to receive an increase of pension under the...
Citation pending | 1951-07-30
Peace Treaty – Hungary – Charge on property within United Kingdom territory and belonging to Hungarian national – Gold and bank balances belonging to Dutch company – Shares of company held by Hungarian national –...
Citation pending | 1951-07-27
ROXBURGH J. At a meeting of the Commissioners for the Special Purposes of the Income Tax Acts held on 9 October 1950, Bentleys, Stokes and Lowless, to whom I will refer as “the firm,” a ppealed against an a ssessment...
Citation pending | 1951-07-16
By a settlement, dated 28 August 1896, the settlor, after declaring particular trusts for the benefit of his children and their issue, gave the surplus trust fund on trust for all or any his children or remoter issue...
Citation pending | 1951-07-11
By his will, dated 8 October 1942, the testator gave his residuary estate to his trustees on trust to pay the sum of £10 each week free of income tax to his son M during his life on protective trusts, and after M ’ s...
4 a llowed the said Colmar to have access in the manner set forth in | 1951-05-29
“on or about Sept, 1, 1948, a llowed one William George Colmar without the knowledge or authority of the plaintiff and without any possible right in the said Colmar so to do to enter the said parcels office, break open...
Citation pending | 1951-04-25
In December, 1919, the plaintiff mortgaged certain property to one R to secure a sum of £5,000. The defendant a cted as solicitor for both parties and retained the original documents of title together with the mortgage...
Citation pending | 1951-03-20
In their statement of claim in an action for damages for breach of contract the plaintiffs pleaded in effect that goods sold to them by the defendants were valueless and claimed the full purchase price which a mounted...
Citation pending | 1951-03-14
Divorce – Petition – Petition within three years of marriage – Leave to present – Jurisdiction of commissioner to grant – Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act, 1925 (c 49), s 70(5) – Matrimonial Causes Act,...
The husband is not entitled | 1951-02-22
Appeal by the husband from an order of Wallington J dated 20 November 1950, made under s 5(1) of the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1949, whereby he held that the husband had wilfully neglected to provide...
Citation pending | 1951-01-22
By her will, dated in April, 1929, a testatrix gave her residuary estate to trustees on trust for conversion and investment and “to pay the income a rising therefrom to my [daughter E.] during her life and after her...
67 | 1951-01-18
Rent Control – Notice to quit – Notice given after tenancy referred to tribunal – Validity and effect – Furnished Houses (Rent Control) Act, 1946 (c 34), s 5.
Citation pending | 1950-12-15
Settlement – After-a cquired property – Covenant to settle on trusts of a will – Covenantor a cquiring absolute interest (i) under the settlement and (ii) under the will – Application of covenant.
Citation pending | 1950-10-12
Appeal by the defendants from a judgment of Ormerod J delivered at Leeds Assizes on 4 May 1950, a warding damages to the plaintiffs, the widow and children of George Beadsley, a workman employed by the defendants at...
Citation pending | 1950-10-06
Appeal by the plaintiff from an order of Parker J in chambers, dated 11 July 1950, dismissing an appeal by the plaintiff from an order of Master Horridge, and had disallowed certain interrogatories.
[1968] GLR 257 | 1950-07-26
The plaintiffs and the defendants are by Ga -Mashie customary law of intestate succession all members of the immediate family of Madam Amorkor Abbey, deceased, being respectively her children and uterine grandchildren...
Citation pending | 1950-07-14
Company – Winding-up – Election – Application for order that winding-up invalid – Previous a pplication for leave to appeal out of time against rejection of proof – Consent to a djournment of a pplication for leave...
Citation pending | 1950-06-29
Appeal by the wife from a judgment of Mr Commissioner Grazebrook KC dated 13 March 1950, dismissing her petition for divorce on the ground that the charges of cruelty made by her were not proved beyond reasonable...
Citation pending | 1950-06-21
conditional forgiveness, the condition being that the guilty party should henceforward behave properly. He is, so to speak, taken back on probation. The probationary period does not, however, necessarily last for life,...
6 | 1950-06-16
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 6 (Delivering the first judgment at the invitation of Francois JSC). The plaintiff sued no fewer than fifteen defendants for certain declarations notable...
Citation pending | 1950-05-17
(ii) there was no authority binding the court to hold that the existence of substantial a ssets belonging to the bank in England (which could only be a dministered by means of a winding-up) was not a lone sufficient to...
2 and 2A | 1950-05-03
Appeal by the plaintiff from an order, dated 8 April 1948, of the West African Court of Appeal (Lucie-Smith CJ Beoku-Bettes J and Kingsley J Sierra Leone), setting a side an order, dated 24 May 1947, of Wright J in the...
Citation pending | 1950-04-05
The Crown claimed estate duty under the Finance Act, 1894, s 1, by virtue of the provisions of the Finance Act, 1940, s 43, if and so far as necessary supplemented by s 56(2) of that Act, or, a lternatively, by virtue...
Citation pending | 1950-03-29
Held – further, the fact that, following the decision of the Court of Appeal in his favour and the tenant ’ s failure to comply with a condition on which a stay had been granted, the landlord had proceeded to execute...
Citation pending | 1950-03-28
Before September 1948, M Ltd a company registered in South Africa, maintained an air service for passengers between Cape Town and London. In September 1948, M Ltd, were prohibited by Order in Council from landing their...
Citation pending | 1950-03-13
A husband, who petitioned for divorce on the ground of his wife ’ s desertion, was granted a decree nisi, without costs against her in an undefended suit. It was proved in evidence that she left the matrimonial home,...
Citation pending | 1950-02-15
Appeal by the six per cent “B” cumulative preference stockholders from an order of Wynn-Parry J, dated 9 November 1949, concerning the construction of the a rticles of a ssociation of the Austin Motor Co Ltd, as they...
Citation pending | 1950-02-10
By his will, dated 22 November 1907, a testator, who died on 10 January 1913, gave all his real estate and his residuary personal estate to his trustees on trust for sale and investment and directed that (in the events...
Citation pending | 1950-02-07
By her will the testatrix, who died in 1924, settled her residuary estate which included £4,000 ordinary stock of a company which had considerable interests in passenger road transport and road haulage undertakings. As...
Citation pending | 1950-01-20
On an originating summons for the construction of a will it was ordered, inter a lia, that the costs of the plaintiffs and the defendants be taxed as between solicitor and client and raised and paid out of the estate...
Citation pending | 1950-01-17
The Defence (Evacuated Areas) Regulations, 1940, as a mended by SR & O, 1945, No 1453, provide: “4(1) Subject to the following provisions of this regulation — (a) no rent … payable in respect of any premises in an...
Citation pending | 1950-01-12
The ratepayers carried on the business of a wireless relay service for which they occupied a receiving station to which, by private telegraph wire rented from the Postmaster-General, programmes of the British...
Citation pending | 1949-12-20
In February 1938, a landlord let a dwelling-house to J E at a rent of 11s per week. In April 1945, April 1946, and April 1947, the landlord orally informed J E that the rates had been increased, and that J E would have...
Citation pending | 1949-12-14
Croom-Johnson J held that estate duty was payable under the Finance Act, 1894, s 1, in respect of property in which the deceased at one time had a life interest, a lthough that interest had been determined some twelve...
Citation pending | 1949-11-17
Appeal from an order of the Court of Appeal (reported [1948] 2 AllER 460). The husband of the a ppellant was killed while travelling as a passenger in an omnibus belonging to the respondents. She claimed that the...
Citation pending | 1949-11-15
Action by five council house tenants of the Reading Corporation, suing on behalf of themselves and some 3,140 other tenants, claiming (a) a declaration that two decisions of the corporation, through their housing...
Citation pending | 1949-11-04
A testator, who died on 24 December 1942, by his will, after bequeathing numerous pecuniary legacies, gave all his residuary real estate to his wife for her life and directed that thereafter the trustees were to sell...