Results: 20

• Christie (Margaret E) v Gosling (Ellis Duncombe)

  27 Jul 1866 LR 1 HL 279, HL

  WILL — Vested Interest — Tenant in Tail
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  WILL — Vested Interest — Tenant in Tail — Personalty.
• Mersey Docks Trustees v Gibbs (Mersey Docks Trustees v Penhallow)

  05 Jun 1866 LR 1 HL 93, HL(E) (Blackburn J, Lord Cranworth LC, Lord Wensleydale and Lord Westbury)

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; 1 neutral; most recently considered: 2021. Subsequent citations: 8.
  MR. JUSTICE BLACKBURN:— My Lords, I have the honour, in answer to your Lordships' questions in these cases, to deliver the joint opinion of all the Judges who heard the argument. The two actions before your Lordships, though arising out of the same transaction, do not come before your Lordships' House in precisely the same manner. In Gibbs v. The Mersey Board (the action by the owner of the cargo) the question is raised by a demurrer to the declaration, on which all the material averments must be considered as admitted to be true. The damages are assessed on the

• Simpson (George) v Holliday (Thomas)

  27 Jul 1866 LR 1 HL 315, HL

  PATENT — Specification — “Or”
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  PATENT — Specification — “Or” — New Trial — Construction — Court of Appeal in Chancery — 21 & 22 Vict. c. 27, ss. 3, 6.

• Cullen (Paul) v Attorney-General For Ireland

  08 Jun 1866 LR 1 HL 190, HL

  LEGACY — Charity.
  June 8. THE LORD CHANCELLOR (Lord Cranworth):— My Lords, this is a question which lies within the narrowest compass. This lady, Bridget Fitzgerald, by her will, and several codicils, gave the residue of her property to two gentlemen, both of whom have died, and who are now represented by the Appellant, the Most Reverend Archbishop Cullen. By her will, she gave the property to these two persons simpliciter; but then it must be taken as an admitted fact that she gave it to them upon their having, in her lifetime, validly undertaken that they would hold it upon certain charitable
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  LEGACY — Charity.
• Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal Navigation (Proprietors of) v Proprietors of Birmingham Canal Navigations

  13 Jul 1866 LR 1 HL 254, HL

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive. Subsequent citations: 3.
  CANAL — Water — User
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  CANAL — Water — User — Grant — Prescription — 2 & 3 Will. 4, c. 71, s. 2.

• Curtis v Platt

  06 Nov 1863 (Note) 3 ChD 135, Ch D (Wood V-C)

  07 Aug 1866 LR 1 HL 337, HL

  PRACTICE — Chancery appeal — Order
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  PRACTICE — Chancery appeal — Order — 21 & 22 Vict. c. 27.

• Trevillian (Charlotte) v Knight (William)

  30 Apr 1866 LR 1 HL 30, HL

  PARTIES — Next of kin — Practice
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  PARTIES — Next of kin — Practice — 10 & 11 Vict. c. 96.
• Ramsden v Dyson

  11 May 1866 LR 1 HL 129, HL

  Subsequent considerations : 4 positive; 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 35.
  CONTRACT — Parol agreement — Tenancy
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  CONTRACT — Parol agreement — Tenancy — Right to lease — Equity — Agents.

• Doglioni (Maria) v Crispin (Francisco Jose Cortes)

  31 Jul 1866 LR 1 HL 301, HL

  Subsequent citations: 2.
  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Domicile — Foreign Court
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  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Domicile — Foreign Court — Will — Personal Property.
• Williams (Thomas George) v Harding (Robert Palmer)

  11 Mar 1866 LR 1 HL 9, HL

  Subsequent considerations : 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 4.
  COMPANY — Calls — Debt
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  COMPANY — Calls — Debt — Joint-stock company — Winding-up Acts — Bankruptcy — Petitioning creditor — 11 & 12 Vict. c. 45; 12 & 13 Vict. c. 108; 24 & 25 Vict. c. 134.