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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...
Citation pending | 1949-11-03
By the Housing Act, 1936, s 9(1): “Where a local authority … are satisfied that any house which is occupied, or is of a type suitable for occupation, by persons of the working classes is in any respect unfit for human...
Citation pending | 1949-10-18
Purchase Tax – Wholesale value – Appropriation by manufacturer of chargeable goods for sale in retail department – Opinion of commissioners – Power of court to review – Finance (No 2) Act, 1940 (c 48), s 21(1).
Citation pending | 1949-07-11
LORD GODDARD CJ. I mean no disrespect to the interesting and elaborate a rgument of counsel for the company if I do not call on counsel for the Crown, because this case raises a short point of construction of a section...
Citation pending | 1949-06-30
Appeal by the husband from a judgment of His Honour Judge Carey-Evans, sitting as a commissioner in divorce, dated 22 February 1949, refusing to grant to the husband a decree of divorce on the ground of the wife ’ s...
Citation pending | 1949-06-29
By a conveyance dated 28 September 1945, the mortgagor a cquired property which, by a mortgage of the same date, he charged to the plaintiffs with the payment by instalments of the sum secured. Before 28 September...
Citation pending | 1949-04-06
Settlement – “All that the share and interest of and in the residuary trust fund under the will of” AD – Whether an a ppointed share is a share under the will – Whether settlement an a ssignment of present interests...
Citation pending | 1949-03-16
On 31 October 1939, a testator made a will in American form disposing of his a ssets in the United States of America and directing his American trustee after the death of M to pay over the whole of his trust estate to...
Citation pending | 1949-02-14
The action was brought more than six years after the date of the conversion and the defence was that the cause of action a ccrued at the date of conversion and, a ccordingly, the action was barred by the Limitation Act...
Citation pending | 1949-02-11
By her will a testatrix gave a legacy of £5,000 to trustees on trust to pay the income to H G for her life, and directed that “after her death [they] shall stand possessed of both income and capital thereof in trust...
Citation pending | 1949-02-09
A was the tenant of a flat in a block owned by the defendant landlords. A. ’ s wife, who kept house for him, in crossing the courtyard a ttached to the premises, tripped over an irregularity in the surface, and was...
Citation pending | 1949-01-21
At a court of summary jurisdiction sitting at Nottingham on March 22, 1948, informations were preferred by the respondent, Robert James Tull Smith, a solicitor, on behalf of the Law Society, under s 47 of the...
1 | 1949-01-12
Appeal by the tenant from an order of Slade J dated 15 June 1948, reported [1948] 2 AllER 224, whereby the landlords were a warded judgment for £115 2s 2d, a rrears of rent. The decision turned on the amount of the...
Citation pending | 1948-12-15
The Trade Marks Act, 1938, s 26, provides: “(1) … a registered trade mark may be taken off the register … on a pplication by any person a ggrieved to the court or … to the registrar, on the ground … (b) that up to the...
Citation pending | 1948-12-15
At least the same degree of cruelty must be proved to justify the making of a maintenance order by a court of summary jurisdiction in favour of a wife under the Summary Jurisdiction (Married Women) Act, 1895, s 4, as...
Citation pending | 1948-12-09
The plaintiff, an electrical fitter employed by the defendants, electricity undertakers, was injured in an explosion which occurred while he was about to carry out a test at a switchboard in connection with the...
Citation pending | 1948-12-02
TUCKER LJ. This is an action brought by Horace Archibald Benson against the Home Office. It is a claim for damages for breach of contract, the breach a lleged being wrongful dismissal which took place on 30 May 1930,...
Citation pending | 1948-11-09
A dispute having a risen between the owners of the Norwegian tanker, Petrofina, and charterers whether the owners were entitled to cancel a charterparty dated 18 March 1937, between the parties, the a rbitrator,...
Citation pending | 1948-11-03
The landlords of a dwelling-house during the tenancy thereof by B, installed gratuitously in the house a new boiler to replace an old one. During very cold weather, B ’ s daughter, C, lit a fire in the boiler, which...
19 | 1948-10-22
Held – The word “tenant” in the Rent and Mortgage Interest Restrictions Act, 1923, s 10, referred to the original tenant A, and, in a rriving at the proportion of the rent fairly a ttributable to a ttendance, regard...
Citation pending | 1948-10-18
Adultery – Evidence – Cross-examination – “Have you ever committed a dultery?” – General charge of a dultery pleaded – Particulars of specific a cts – Denial in evidence of specific a cts – Supreme Court of Judicature...
Citation pending | 1948-10-04
The a ppellant contracted bronchitis while serving in the a rmy before the war. In 1939 he re-enlisted and was passed fit for service. His duties involved guard duties in the performance of which he was exposed to the...
Citation pending | 1948-07-30
SELLERS J read the following judgment. The plaintiffs are an American company carrying on business in Chicago. The defendant is a Dutchman who carries on business in Holland, England and elsewhere. The action is...
Citation pending | 1948-07-12
Appeal by the executrix of the sole proprietor of the plaintiff firm from an order of Lord Goddard CJ dated 8 June 1948, and reported [1948] 2 AllER 144, refusing leave to a mend the writ by the substitution of herself...
Citation pending | 1948-07-09
The plaintiff ’ s husband was killed in an a ccident while a passenger in a motor omnibus belonging to the defendants, and she sought to recover damages under the Fatal Accidents Act, 1846, and the Law Reform...