Results: 40

• Radcliffe v Ribble Motor Services Limited

  23 Feb 1939 [1939] AC 215, HL

  Subsequent citations: 3.
  MASTER AND SERVANT — Common employment — Drivers of motor coaches in service of same employers
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  MASTER AND SERVANT — Common employment — Drivers of motor coaches in service of same employers — Coaches carrying parties to same destination — Return to garage — Death of one driver owing to negligence of another driver — Liability of employers.

• Pyrmont Ltd, v Schott

  01 Dec 1938 [1939] AC 145, PC

  CONTRACT — Gibraltar — Contract
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  CONTRACT — Gibraltar — Contract — Loan at Gibraltar by cheque in Spanish pesetas — Bond securing repayment of pesetas — Spanish Government decree making “guias” necessary for legal importation of Bank of Spain notes — Loan repayable by peseta notes with “guias” or their equivalent in sterling.
• Maurice v Goldsborough Mort & Co Ltd

  05 May 1939 [1939] AC 452, PC

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 4.
  INSURANCE — Australia — Insurance
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  INSURANCE — Australia — Insurance — Wool — Consigned by owner to brokers for sale — Destroyed by fire in brokers' store — Brokers' insurable interest — Full value recoverable from insurer — Apportionment between owner and brokers according to respective interests — Brokers not entitled to retain prospective profits and charges.
• Nomikos (Petros M) Ltd v Robertson

  23 May 1938 [1938] 2 KB 603; [1938] 3 All ER 249, CA

  09 May 1939 [1939] AC 371; [1939] 2 All ER 723, HL

  Subsequent considerations : 2 neutral. Subsequent citations: 6.
  INSURANCE — Insurance (marine) — Insurance on hull
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  INSURANCE — Insurance (marine) — Insurance on hull — Insurance on freight — “In the event of constructive total loss of steamer” — Incorporation of Institute Time Clauses, Freight — Vessel damaged by fire — Cost of repairs more than insured value — Vessel when repaired worth more than cost of repairs — Charterparty not performed — Freight not received — No abandonment to hull underwriters — Claim against hull underwriters for partial loss — Claim against freight underwriters for constructive total loss — Whether maintainable — Marine Insurance Act, 1906 (6 Edw. 7, c. 41), s. 60, sub-ss. 1, 2; s. 61.

  INSURANCE — Insurance (marine) — Insurance on hull — Insurance on freight — “In the event of constructive total loss of steamer” — Incorporation of Institute Time Clauses, Freight — Vessel damaged by fire — Cost of repairs more than insured value — Vessel when repaired worth more than cost of repairs — Charterparty not performed — Freight not received — No abandonment to hull underwriters — Claim against hull underwriters for partial loss and against freight underwriters for constructive total loss — Marine Insurance Act, 1906 (6 Edw. 7, c. 41), ss. 60, 61.

  1 Statute considered
• Vyricherla Narayana Gajapatiraju (Raja) v Revenue Divisional Officer, Vizagapatam

  23 Feb 1939 [1939] AC 302, PC

  Subsequent considerations : 3 negative. Subsequent citations: 16.
  LAND — Land acquisition — Compulsory acquisition
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  LAND — Land acquisition — Compulsory acquisition — Potentialities — Acquiring authority sole possible purchase of potentiality — Valuation — Land Acquisition Act (I. of 1894), ss. 23, 24.

  1 Statute considered

• Saadat Kamel Hanum v Attorney-General For Palestine

  23 May 1939 [1939] AC 508, PC

  LAND — Palestine — Wakf
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  LAND — Palestine — Wakf — Action by mutawalli to recover wakf property — Limitation — Time from which period of limitation runs — Function of illustrations in legislative enactments — Ottoman Civil Code (Mejelle), Book XIV., arts. 1660–1667.

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• Butler v R

  12 May 1939 [1939] AC 484, PC

  COURT OF APPEAL — Trinidad and tobago — Court of Criminal Appeal
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  COURT OF APPEAL — Trinidad and tobago — Court of Criminal Appeal — Constitution — Statutory regulation — Chief Justice and Puisne Judges — Acting Judges of Supreme Court not competent members of Court of Criminal Appeal — Judicature Ordinance, 1880, c. 35, as amended, ss. 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 — Judicature (Amendment) Ordinance, 1936, ss. 4, 5 — Criminal Appeal Ordinance, No. 31 of 1931, s. 3.

  3 Statutory Instruments considered

• Montreal Trust Co v Canadian National Railway Co

  21 Jul 1939 [1939] AC 613, PC

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  RAILWAY — Canada (quebec) — Railway
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  RAILWAY — Canada (quebec) — Railway — Contract — Director interested for his own use and benefit — Statutory prohibition — Contract void and of no effect — Railway Act (R. S. C., 1927, c. 170), s. 121.

  1 Statute considered

• Gokal Chand-Jagan Nath (Firm) v Nand Ram Das-Atma Ram (Firm)

  21 Oct 1938 [1939] AC 106, PC

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  AGENCY — India — Principal and Agent
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  AGENCY — India — Principal and Agent — Commercial transactions through agent — Debts due to principal from third party — Financial embarrassment of debtor — Credit given by agent — Duty of agent to make best bargain possible — Burden of proof.

• Oxford City Council v Oxfordshire County Council

  07 Mar 1938 [1938] 2 KB 415, CA

  13 Dec 1938 [1939] AC 48, HL

  LOCAL GOVERNMENT — Alteration of areas — Act extending boundary of city
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  LOCAL GOVERNMENT — Alteration of areas — Act extending boundary of city — Transfer of districts from county to city — Subsequent Act making county council the district road authority and the poor law authority — Increased burden on county ratepayers — Adjustment of financial relations — Increased burden whether due to extension Act or to subsequent Act — Arbitration — Amount of compensation — Oxford Extension Act, 1928 (18 & 19 Geo. 5, c. lxxxiv.), ss. 4, 5, 33, 61 — Local Government Act, 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 41), s. 62 — Local Government (Adjustments) Act, 1913 (2 & 3 Geo. 5, c. 19), s. 1; Schedule, Part II. (1.), (2.), (3.) — Local Government Act, 1929 (19 & 20 Geo. 5, c. 17), s. 113, sub-ss. 1, 2; s. 117, sub-s. 4.

  3 Case(s) considered

  4 Statutes considered