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3174 cases across 17 courts
3174 cases
Citation pending | 1936-11-26
As to Apportionment of Costs, see Halsbury (1st Edn), Vol 23, Practice, pp 178 – 180, para 324; and for Cases, see Digest, Practice, pp 917 – 922, Nos 4610 – 4651. See also Yearly Supreme Court Practice 1937, pp 1371 –...
Citation pending | 1936-11-26
‘ Also, the council will at all times thereafter, subject as a foresaid, preserve the land conveyed as an open space or as a pleasure ground or a recreation ground and take all necessary steps to maintain the land as...
Citation pending | 1936-10-29
C had a brokerage business in stocks and shares which was conducted through the defendants who had a seat on Standard Stock and Mining Exchange in Toronto and upon other exchanges. C ’ s clients gave him orders for the...
Citation pending | 1936-10-19
Held – in the exercise of the discretion of the court the plaintiffs should elect within 14 days which of the two sets of plaintiffs should be a llowed to proceed in the action, and upon election being made, there...
Citation pending | 1936-06-24
HORRIDGE J. In this case my judgment must be for the plaintiff. It is not disputed that the present plaintiff is the a ssignee of Collins Orchestras Ltd, under a contract of 19 March 1934. [His Lordship read the...
Citation pending | 1936-06-22
In this case an order which was probably thought at the time to be of little importance, has been the occasion of formulating important principles for the drafting of interlocutory orders dismissing an action. The...
Citation pending | 1936-06-11
A firm A contracted with the London County Council to install steam plant in a hospital. It subcontracted with another firm B to do some of the work. A fell into financial difficulty and gave B an authority a ddressed...
Citation pending | 1936-05-20
This is the first occasion the question of relevance of a consideration of the payment of monopoly value under Licensing Act 1910, s 14 when making an a ssessment for rates has a risen. The court was clear that it was...
Citation pending | 1936-05-18
It is probably unusual for a prosecution to be brought upon a misrepresentation made in the course of a bargain and the more general course is for the person deceived to proceed for damages in a civil action. There is...
Citation pending | 1936-04-28
The plaintiff had obtained judgment against the defendants in an action for damages for conversion by publishing in the defendants ’ newspaper certain literary a rticles, the copyright in which was vested in the...
14 of 1895 | 1936-03-26
Privy Council – Practice – Criminal cases – Special leave to appeal – Mis-direction – Burden of proof – Circumstances only within knowledge of prisoners – Ceylon Evidence Ordinance No 14 of 1895 s 106.
Citation pending | 1936-03-20
There is a very definite limit to the matters of which the court will take judicial notice. On one occasion the court required proof of the fact that France and Austria were at war with one another. It seems clear and...
Citation pending | 1936-03-17
The Stamp Duty Office have for some years a cted upon a rule that any transaction between two or more parties in which a binding contract is entered into before a former transaction between the same parties is...
Citation pending | 1936-03-12
‘ Danesbury Club. Dear Sir, We have been instructed by Mr. W. Hill to act for him in connection with the transfer of the New Atlantic Club from the premises they at present occupy to the premises known as Danesbury...
Citation pending | 1936-03-11
The authorities upon the breach of a contract to lend money whether upon security or not are very few and there does not a ppear to be any previous case where the question has a risen between intending mortgagor and...
Citation pending | 1936-03-04
Will – Distribution of property a ccording to Statutes of Distribution as on intestacy – Settlement and will made before, and testatrix ’ s death after, 1 January 1926 – Administration of Estates Act 1925 (c 23) s...
Citation pending | 1936-03-04
Appeal on a case stated by the justices of the County of Middlesex on the dismissal of an information preferred by Richard Thomas Beer, a traffic examiner a ppointed under the Road and Rail Traffic Act 1933, against W...
Citation pending | 1936-03-02
(ii) to justify a committal for contempt of court, there must be evidence in the a rticle itself taken as a whole, that the publisher has a cted with untruth or malice, or that he imputed improper motives to those...
Citation pending | 1936-02-27
The statement of the law as given by their Lordships has been a ccepted as law for many years, but authority upon the point is very sparse and there are far more cases which, while they accept the general principle,...
Citation pending | 1936-02-14
There is, strictly speaking, no appeal from a finding of fact by a jury, a lthough an a pplication may be made for a new trial where the finding has been against the weight of evidence. In a non-jury case, however, the...
Citation pending | 1936-02-06
This case is the logical conclusion from the coming into operation of the Law of Property Act 1925, Sched I, Part V, which had the effect of severing the ownership of party walls vertically where they had previously...
Citation pending | 1936-02-04
(iv) the plaintiff having a lleged fraud which had not been proved, the judgment for him would be with the general costs of the action except so far as those costs had been increased by the a llegation of fraud.
CA J4/13/2009 | 1892-09-07
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 re Sekyedumase Stool: Nyame v Kese a lias Konto [1998 -99] SCGLR 476 at p. 478: order 14 of the High Court (Civil Procedure) Rules, 1954 (LN 140A), (a...
101 of 1924 | 1880-05-25
The James Town stool has under three quarters or sections, namely Alata, Akumajay and Sempe. For historical reasons, the occupant of the Alata stool is also the occupant of the James Town stool. The quarters of Alata,...