Results: 115

• Capital and Counties Properties Ltd v Butler

  23 Jun 1944 [1944] KB 730, CA

  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Rent restriction — Conditions of statutory tenancy
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  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Rent restriction — Conditions of statutory tenancy — Terms of original tenancy — Contractual rent less than standard rent — Right of landlord to claim standard rent during statutory tenancy — Increase of Rent and Mortgage Interest (Restrictions) Act, 1920 (10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 17), s. 15, sub-s. 1.

  1 Statute considered

• Athel Line Ltd v Liverpool and London War Risks Insurance Association Ltd (No 2)

  22 Nov 1943 [1944] KB 87, KBD

  Subsequent citations: 2.
  INSURANCE — Insurance (marine) — General average
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  INSURANCE — Insurance (marine) — General average — Vessel in convoy — Danger from enemy ships — Return to port under Admiralty instructions — Expenses of return — York-Antwerp Rules, 1924, r. A.

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• W Hill & Son v Tannerhill

  03 Apr 1944 [1944] KB 472, CA

  PRACTICE — Parties — Individual without partners trading in firm name
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  PRACTICE — Parties — Individual without partners trading in firm name — Issue of writ in firm name — Substitution of individual's name — R. S. C., Or. 48A, r. 1.

  1 Statutory Instrument considered
• Monro (George) Ltd v American Cyanamid and Chemical Corpn

  17 Feb 1944 [1944] KB 432, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 2 neutral; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 19.
  PRACTICE — Writ — Service out of jurisdiction
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  PRACTICE — Writ — Service out of jurisdiction — Contract not made within jurisdiction — Performance of contract outside the jurisdiction — Damage within jurisdiction — “Tort committed within the jurisdiction” — R. S. C., Or. xi, r. 1 (e), (ee).

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• R v Duncan

  10 Jun 1944 [1944] KB 713, CCA

  CRIME — Criminal law — Witchcraft
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  CRIME — Criminal law — Witchcraft — “Conjuration” — Witchcraft Act, 1735 (9 Geo. 2, c. 5), s. 4 — Evidence — Demonstration by “medium” of materialization of spirits — Rejection — Discretion of judge.

  1 Statute considered

• In Re Affairs Of Evans and Evans

  18 Feb 1944 [1944] KB 373, CA

  WAR — Emergency Legislation — Liabilities adjustment
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  WAR — Emergency Legislation — Liabilities adjustment — Practice — Application for adjustment order — Preliminary hearing — Need to be ex parte — Liabilities (War-Time Adjustment) Rules, 1942 (St. R. & O., 1942, No. 1302 L. 21), r. 14 (1.).

  1 Statutory Instrument considered
• Knott v Blackburn

  23 Nov 1943 [1944] KB 77, DC

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 2.
  VAGRANCY — Rogue and vagabond — Being found in “enclosed area”
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  VAGRANCY — Rogue and vagabond — Being found in “enclosed area” — Railway sidings — Vagrancy Act, 1824 (5 Geo. 4, c. 83), s. 4.

  1 Statute considered

• Dickinson v St Aubyn

  27 Oct 1943 [1944] KB 10, KBD

  02 Mar 1944 [1944] KB 454, CA

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Lease — Term of seven years
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  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Lease — Term of seven years — Option to tenant to terminate at end of five years — Covenant to deliver up fixtures “at end or sooner determination of tenancy” — Covenant to paint “in the last quarter of the said term” — Applicability of covenants to shortened term.

• Kennedy v Walker

  14 Jan 1944 [1944] KB 225, CA

  EMPLOYMENT — Workmen's compensation — Failure of common law claim
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  EMPLOYMENT — Workmen's compensation — Failure of common law claim — Application by plaintiff in county court to assess compensation — Election — Right of appeal from judgment in common law action — Crown servant — Agreement to treat named individual as employer — Workmen's Compensation Rules, 1926 (St. R. & O., 1926, No. 448), r. 95; — Workmen's Compensation Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 84), s. 29, sub-s. 2.

  1 Statute considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• Henshaw v Rochdale Corpn

  01 Feb 1944 [1944] KB 381, CA

  CONTRACT — Building Contract — Forfeiture clause
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  CONTRACT — Building Contract — Forfeiture clause — Failure to perform contract on date specified for completion — Work to be performed within reasonable time thereafter — Continuance in operation of clause — Notice given under clause — Leave of court not obtained — Right of contractors to damages for breach of contract — Courts (Emergency Powers) Act, 1939 (2 & 3 Geo. 6, c. 67), s. 1, sub-s. 2 (a) (ii.), (iii.).

  1 Statute considered