Results: 41

• Mount Albert Borough Council v Australasian Temperance and General Mutual Life Assurance Society Ltd

  18 Oct 1937 [1938] AC 224, PC

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  CONFLICT OF LAWS — New zealand — Conflict of laws
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  CONFLICT OF LAWS — New zealand — Conflict of laws — Debentures — Issued by local authority in New Zealand under Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913 (now 1926), as security for loan — Interest payable in Victoria, Australia — Compulsory reduction of interest on mortgages and other securities by Victorian legislation — Not applicable to debentures and interest payments — Contract governed by law of New Zealand — Territorial limitation of legislation — Local Bodies' Loans Act, No. 30 of 1913 (N.Z.) — Local Bodies' Loans Act, No. 14 of 1926 (N.Z.) — Financial Emergency Act, 1931, No. 3961 (Victoria), s. 14, sub-s. 1 (a), (b); s. 19, sub-s. 1; s. 28, sub-s. 1; s. 37.

  4 Statutes considered

• Ottoman Bank Of Nicosia v Chakarian

  16 Nov 1937 [1938] AC 260, PC

  Subsequent citations: 2.
  CYPRUS — Bank — Employee
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  CYPRUS — Bank — Employee — Basic salary in Turkish pounds — No “gold clause” — Payment in legal tender — Pension — Not payable in Turkish gold pounds or equivalent in Cyprus currency — Turkish law.

• Nippon Yusen Kaisha v Ramjiban Serowgee

  11 Mar 1938 [1938] AC 429, PC

  Subsequent citations: 3.
  SHIPPING — India — Shipping
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  SHIPPING — India — Shipping — Bills of lading — Issued to shipper of goods without production of mate's receipts — Indemnity taken — Mate's receipts, in name of shipper, held by vendor of goods against payment by shipper — Payment not made — Goods disposed of by shipper — Vendor's equitable lien — Claim against shipowner — Conversion.
• Sammut v Strickland

  25 Jul 1938 [1938] AC 678; [1938] 3 All ER 693; 54 TLR 1080, PC

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 5.
  CROWN — Malta — Grant of representative institutions by Letters Patent
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  CROWN — Malta — Grant of representative institutions by Letters Patent — Revocation — Crown's prerogative to legislate subsequently by Letters Patent — Acquisition by voluntary cession — Malta Letters Patent, August 12, 1936 — Temporary Additional Duties Ordinance, No. XXVII. of 1936 — Constitutional validity

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• Shannon v Lower Mainland Dairy Products Board Attorney-General For British Columbia (Intervening)

  27 Jul 1938 [1938] AC 708, PC

  AGRICULTURE — Canada — British Columbia
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  AGRICULTURE — Canada — British Columbia — Natural products marketing legislation — Scheme of control and regulation — Imposition of licence fees — Regulation of particular businesses entirely within the Province — Intra vires of the Provincial Legislature — Bri

  2 Statutes considered
• A Baily and Co Ltd v Clark, Son and Morland

  12 Apr 1938 [1938] AC 557, HL

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 1.
  TRADE MARK — Geographical name — “Glastonburys”
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  TRADE MARK — Geographical name — “Glastonburys” — Whether distinctive and registrable — Trade Marks Acts, 1905–1919 (5 Edw. 7, c. 15, ss. 3, 9; 9 & 10 Geo. 5, c. 79).

  1 Statute considered

• Fender v St John-Mildmay

  17 May 1935 [1935] 2 KB 334, KBD (Hawke J)

  04 Nov 1935 [1936] 1 KB 111, CA (Greer, Slesser, Greene LJJ)

  28 Jun 1937 [1938] AC 1; [1937] 3 All ER 402; 53 TLR 885; 106 LJKB 641, HL (Lord Atkin, Lord Thankerton, Lord Russell Of Killowen, Lord Wright, Lord Roche)

  Subsequent citations: 22.
  MARRIAGE — Breach of promise — Promise made by married man
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  MARRIAGE — Breach of promise — Promise made by married man — Promise made after decree nisi obtained by the wife but before decree absolute — Whether promise enforceable — Public policy.

  2 Case(s) considered
• Avery v London and North Eastern Railway Co

  09 May 1938 [1938] AC 606, HL

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 3.
  MASTER AND SERVANT — Four workmen killed in railway accident — Widows' claims for damages under Employers' Liability Act, 1880
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  MASTER AND SERVANT — Four workmen killed in railway accident — Widows' claims for damages under Employers' Liability Act, 1880 — Children's claims for compensation under Workmen's Compensation Act, 1925 — Computation of damages and compensation — Fatal Accidents Act, 1846 (9 & 10 Vict. c. 93), ss. 2, 3, 4 — Fatal Accidents Act Amendment Act, 1864 (27 & 28 Vict. c. 95), s. 1 — Employers' Liability Act, 1880 (43 & 44 Vict. c. 42), ss. 1, 3 — Workmen's Compensation Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 84), ss. 8, 29.

  4 Statutes considered
• Greer v Kettle

  22 Nov 1937 [1938] AC 156, HL

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 23.
  SURETY — Principal and surety — Recital in guarantee that loan was secured on certain shares
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  SURETY — Principal and surety — Recital in guarantee that loan was secured on certain shares — Shares not in fact issued — Liability of guarantors — Estoppel by recital.
• Legge (George) & Son Ltd v Wenlock Corpn

  22 Dec 1937 [1938] AC 204, HL

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 9.
  LOCAL GOVERNMENT — Stream — Sewer
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  LOCAL GOVERNMENT — Stream — Sewer — Change of status of stream — Statute — Violation of statutory prohibition — Public Health Act, 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 55), ss. 4, 13, 15, 17 — Rivers Pollution Prevention Act, 1876 (39 & 40 Vict. c. 75), ss. 3, 20.

  2 Statutes considered