Results: 71

• Prince v Gagnon

  25 Nov 1882 8 App Cas 103, PC

  PRACTICE — Special Leave to Appeal.
  LORD FITZGERALD: — The petition before us is for liberty to appeal against a judgment of the Supreme Court of the Dominion of Canada. The suit involved a question as to a sum of about £1000. On one side it was alleged that this sum ought to be taken into account, as it represented goods which were given upon a contract of sale by the father to the son on the occasion of the father relinquishing business in favour of the son at the time of the son's marriage. On the other hand, it was alleged that the transaction in
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  PRACTICE — Special Leave to Appeal.

• Mott v Lockhart

  30 Jun 1883 8 App Cas 568, PC

  MINES — Nova scotia revised statutes, 4th series, c. 9 — Right to lease
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  MINES — Nova scotia revised statutes, 4th series, c. 9 — Right to lease — Priority of Application.

• Fenton v Harrison

  04 May 1883 8 App Cas 780, HL

  RAILWAY — Railway company — Borrowing Powers.
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  RAILWAY — Railway company — Borrowing Powers.

• Philip Esnouf v The Attorney-General For Jersey

  03 Mar 1883 8 App Cas 304, PC

  PRACTICE — Criminal Cases — Special Leave to appeal
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  PRACTICE — Criminal Cases — Special Leave to appeal — Order in Council of 13th May, 1572.

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• Macdonald v Whitfield

  11 Jul 1883 8 App Cas 733, PC

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  PROMISSORY NOTE — Indorsement as co-Sureties — Liability of Indorsers to equal Contribution inter se.
  LORD WATSON: — Edward Macdonald and George Whitfield, who are respectively appellant and respondent in this appeal, were in the year 1875 directors of a trading corporation known as the St. John's Stone Chinaware Company, which carried on business at St. John's in the district of Iberville and province of Quebec. At that time the concern was not in a very prosperous condition, and in the month of July, 1875, the balance due by the company in its account current with the Merchants' Bank of Canada was upwards of $17,000. The appellant was president and chairman of the board of
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  PROMISSORY NOTE — Indorsement as co-Sureties — Liability of Indorsers to equal Contribution inter se.

• Studd v Cook

  08 May 1883 8 App Cas 577, HL

  ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES — Succession — English Will devising English and Scotch Lands in tail male, Effect as to Scotch Heritage
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  ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES — Succession — English Will devising English and Scotch Lands in tail male, Effect as to Scotch Heritage — Construction — Intention of Testator — Titles to Land Consolidation (Scotland) Act, 1868 (31 & 32 Vict. c. 101), ss. 19, 20.

  1 Statute considered

• William Tindal Robertson and Elizabeth Anne His Wife v Broadbent and The Attorney-General

  23 Jul 1883 8 App Cas 812, HL

  WILL — Will, construction of — Specific Legacy
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  WILL — Will, construction of — Specific Legacy — Residuary Bequest.

• The Justices Of The Peace For The West Riding Of The County Of York v The Queen On The Prosecution Of The Mayor Aldermen and Burgesses Of The Borough Of Sheffield

  04 Jun 1883 8 App Cas 781, HL

  HIGHWAY — Highway, repair of — Turnpike Roads ceasing to be such since the 31st of December 1870
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  HIGHWAY — Highway, repair of — Turnpike Roads ceasing to be such since the 31st of December 1870 — Highways and Locomotives (Amendment) Act 1878 (41 & 42 Vict. c. 77) s. 13.

  1 Statute considered

• Lee v Alexander

  03 Aug 1883 8 App Cas 853, HL

  VENDOR AND PURCHASER — Conveyance of heritage — Mid-superiority
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  VENDOR AND PURCHASER — Conveyance of heritage — Mid-superiority — Meaning of Clause “All other lands and others,” following and concluding a Specific Enumeration and Description of Separate Subjects — When Reference to prior Letters to control Language of Dispositive Clause not allowed — Ambiguity.
• Maddison v Alderson

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 23.