Results: 131

• Macdougall v Gardiner (No 1)

  28 Jun 1875 LR 20 Eq 383, Equity

  12 Nov 1875 1 ChD 13, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 10.
  PRACTICE — Bill against Directors of Company — Shareholder's Suit on behalf
  Expand

  Case index catchwords

  PRACTICE — Bill against Directors of Company — Shareholder's Suit on behalf — Authority of Chairman of Meeting — Motion for Adjournment — Mode of taking Votes.

• Beresford v Browning

  03 Jul 1875 LR 20 Eq 564, Equity

  PARTNERSHIP — Agreement as to Payment by Surviving Partners of Deceased Partner's Share — Joint and Several Liability.
  SIR G. JESSEL, M.R.:— The question in this case has taken a very great deal of time in discussion, but the point is really a very simple one. Four persons were in business as oil merchants. They came to an agreement to regulate the mode of paying out the share of any one who should die or retire. That agreement is dated the 20th of February, 1855, and is as follows:— [His Honour read the material part.] It is noticeable that the agreement speaks of the share in the co-partnership business, which is, of course, a share of the capital.
  Expand

  Case index catchwords

  PARTNERSHIP — Agreement as to Payment by Surviving Partners of Deceased Partner's Share — Joint and Several Liability.
• Taylor v Taylor

  04 May 1875 LR 20 Eq 155, Equity

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 1.
  ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES — Intestacy — Advancements by Portion
  Expand

  Case index catchwords

  ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES — Intestacy — Advancements by Portion — Statute of Distributions (22 & 23 Car. 2, c. 10), s. 5 — Share of Intestate's Estate — Debt due to Administrator — Set-off.

  1 Statute considered

• Cannon v Trask

  29 Jul 1875 LR 20 Eq 669, Equity

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  INJUNCTION — Powers of Directors — Annual General Meeting
  Expand

  Case index catchwords

  INJUNCTION — Powers of Directors — Annual General Meeting — Voting Powers of Shareholders.

• Wilson v Thomson

  03 Jun 1875 LR 20 Eq 459, Equity

  PRACTICE — Co-defendants, equities between — Costs, Adjustment of, between co-Defendants.
  SIR CHARLES HALL, V.C., delivered judgment in favour of the Plaintiff, and being of opinion that the Defendant Timms had no interest in the property comprised in the contract, decreed specific performance of such contract against the Defendant Thomson. Upon the question of costs, His Honour said:— The Plaintiff must have costs against both the Defendants, but I consider that Timms is the person whose misconduct has brought about this suit, and I should like to make him bear the costs as between himself and Thomson if I have jurisdiction to do so. It has been suggested that I should
  Expand

  Case index catchwords

  PRACTICE — Co-defendants, equities between — Costs, Adjustment of, between co-Defendants.

• Shepheard v Walker

  09 Jul 1875 LR 20 Eq 659, Equity

  SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE — Specific — Performance
  Expand

  Case index catchwords

  SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE — Specific — Performance — Delay — Lessor and Lessee.

• In Re Gardiner’s Estate; Garratt v Weeks

  07 Jul 1875 LR 20 Eq 647, Equity

  WILL — Bequest to Brothers and Sisters at Twenty-one or Marriage — Brother in esse, but not born, at Death of Testatrix
  Expand

  Case index catchwords

  WILL — Bequest to Brothers and Sisters at Twenty-one or Marriage — Brother in esse, but not born, at Death of Testatrix — Class when ascertained — After-born Brother excluded.

• Middleton v Pollock, Ex parte Nugee

  24 Apr 1875 LR 20 Eq 29, Equity

  EQUITY — Equitable set-off — Debts “En autre Droit”
  Expand

  Case index catchwords

  EQUITY — Equitable set-off — Debts “En autre Droit” — Debts due to and from Executor and Residuary Legatee — Assignment after Decree.

• Duke Of Bedford v Dawson

  24 Jun 1875 LR 20 Eq 353, Equity

  Subsequent citations: 3.
  LAND — Lands clauses act, 1845, s. 68 — Ancient Lights
  Expand

  Case index catchwords

  LAND — Lands clauses act, 1845, s. 68 — Ancient Lights — Railway Clearing House Extension Act (37 Vict. c. xvi.) — Compulsory Powers — Injunction.

  2 Statutes considered

• Gibbs v David

  24 Jun 1875 LR 20 Eq 373, Equity

  CONTRACT — Contract to purchase a mine — Suit to rescind Contract
  Expand

  Case index catchwords

  CONTRACT — Contract to purchase a mine — Suit to rescind Contract — Appointment of Receiver and Manager.