Results: 63

• Mary Tug Co Ltd v British India Steam Navigation Co Ltd

  20 Mar 1897 [1897] AC 351, PC

  COLLISION — Collision at anchor — Duty of Colliding Vessel
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  COLLISION — Collision at anchor — Duty of Colliding Vessel — duty at Anchor — Onus probandi.

• Van Grutten v Foxwell

  05 Jul 1897 [1897] AC 658, HL

  Subsequent citations: 2.
  WILL — Will, construction of — Estate Tail
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  WILL — Will, construction of — Estate Tail — Issue — Heirs — Gift Over — Descent — Purchase — Rule in Shelley's Case.

• Wavertree Sailing Ship Co Ltd v Love

  22 May 1897 [1897] AC 373, PC

  Subsequent citations: 2.
  BOND — Average bond — Average Statement
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  BOND — Average bond — Average Statement — No Duty to employ an Average Stater.
• Russell v Russell

  16 Jul 1897 [1897] AC 395, HL

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 1.
  JUDICIAL SEPARATION — Cruelty — Matrimonial Causes Acts, 1857 (20 & 21 Vict. c. 85, s. 22) and 1884 (47 & 48 Vict. c. 68).
  LORD HALSBURY L.C. My Lords, before dealing with the appeal, I think it right to mention that I have received, as I suppose all your Lordships have received, a document professing to deal with the merits of this case, and intended to influence the decision at which your Lordships might arrive. My Lords, that the sending of these documents was a gross and scandalous contempt and a breach of privilege cannot be doubted, and, but for what I am about to refer to, it would have been my duty to move that the authors of this outrage should be summoned
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  JUDICIAL SEPARATION — Cruelty — Matrimonial Causes Acts, 1857 (20 & 21 Vict. c. 85, s. 22) and 1884 (47 & 48 Vict. c. 68).

  1 Statute considered

• The Kent County Council v Lord Gerard

  23 Jul 1897 [1897] AC 633, HL

  HIGHWAY — Excessive Weight or Extraordinary Traffic — “Person by whose Order such Weight or Traffic has been conducted”
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  HIGHWAY — Excessive Weight or Extraordinary Traffic — “Person by whose Order such Weight or Traffic has been conducted” — Highways and Locomotives (Amendment) Act 1878 (41 & 42 Vict. c. 77) s. 23.

  1 Statute considered

• Hood Barrs v Heriot (No 2)

  16 Mar 1897 [1897] AC 177, HL

  Subsequent citations: 2.
  MARRIAGE — Married woman — Separate Estate
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  MARRIAGE — Married woman — Separate Estate — Restraint on Anticipation — Appeal by Married Woman Defendant — Costs — “Proceeding Instituted” — Married Women's Property Act 1893 c. 63 s. 2.

  1 Statute considered
• Dona Maria Abeyesekera Hamini v Daniel Tillekeratne

  26 Feb 1897 [1897] AC 277, PC

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive.
  WILL — Law of ceylon — Fidei Commissum
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  WILL — Law of ceylon — Fidei Commissum — Ordinances 21 of 1844, 10 of 1863, and 7 of 1871 — Will — Construction — Jus accrescendi.

• Chastey v Ackland

  17 Jun 1895 [1895] 2 Ch 389, CA

  22 Feb 1897 [1897] AC 155, HL

  Subsequent citations: 3.
  LAND — Air — Right to uninterrupted current of Air
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  LAND — Air — Right to uninterrupted current of Air — Stagnation of Air — Nuisance — Injunction.
• Bensaude v Thames and Mersey Marine Insurance Co Ltd

  17 Nov 1896 [1897] 1 QB 29, CA

  08 Jul 1897 [1897] AC 609, HL

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 4.
  INSURANCE — Insurance (marine) — Loss of Freight
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  INSURANCE — Insurance (marine) — Loss of Freight — Exception — “Claim consequent on Loss of Time” — Loss of Time arising from Peril of the Sea.

• Lord Advocate v Fleming Or Robertson

  18 Feb 1897 [1897] AC 145, HL

  REVENUE — Succession Duty — Policy of Insurance
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  REVENUE — Succession Duty — Policy of Insurance — The Succession Duty Act, 1853 (16 & 17 Vict. c. 51), s. 2 — The Customs and Inland Revenue Acts, 1881, 1889, 44 & 45 Vict. c. 12, s. 38, and 52 & 53 Vict. c. 7, s. 11.

  2 Statutes considered