Results: 49

• United Steel Companies Ltd v Cullington (Inspector Of Taxes)

  19 Mar 1940 [1940] AC 812, HL

  Subsequent citations: 4.
  REVENUE — Companies — Amalgamation
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  REVENUE — Companies — Amalgamation — Losses — Wear and tear allowances — Right to carry forward — Income Tax Act, 1918 (8 & 9 Geo. 5, c. 40), Sch. D, Rules applicable to Cases I. and II., rr. 6. 11 — Finance Act, 1926 (16 & 17 Geo. 5, c. 2

  3 Statutes considered

• Smith v Cammell, Laird and Co Ltd

  04 Dec 1939 [1940] AC 242, HL

  Subsequent citations: 5.
  FACTORY — Shipbuilder's yard, including dock — Newly-built ship undergoing completion in dock
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  FACTORY — Shipbuilder's yard, including dock — Newly-built ship undergoing completion in dock — Staging in forehold erected by shipbuilder in course of his work — Insulation company employed by shipowner afterwards allowed by shipbuilder to use s

  1 Statute considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• Fife Coal Co Ltd v William Young

  14 Mar 1940 [1940] AC 479, HL

  Subsequent citations: 3.
  EMPLOYMENT — Workmen's compensation — “Accident”
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  EMPLOYMENT — Workmen's compensation — “Accident” — Dropped foot due to continuous kneeling in mine — Workmen's Compensation Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 84), s. 1, sub-s. 1.

  1 Statute considered

• Wolstanton Ltd, and Attorney-General Of Duchy Of Lancaster v Newcastle-Under-Lyme Corpn

  30 May 1940 [1940] AC 860, HL

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  MINES — Mine — Surface let down
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  MINES — Mine — Surface let down — Alleged custom or prescriptive right to let down surface without paying compensation.
• Cohen v Cohen

  15 Apr 1940 [1940] AC 631, HL

  22 May 1947 [1947] P 147, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive. Subsequent citations: 3.
  DIVORCE — Desertion — Effect of previous petition on the file

  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Divorce — Desertion
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  DIVORCE — Desertion — Effect of previous petition on the file — Matrimonial Causes Act, 1937 (1 Edw. 8 & 1 Geo. 6, c. 57), s. 2.

  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Divorce — Desertion — Magistrate's maintenance order — Non-cohabitation clause included by inadvertence — Effect on period of desertion.

  1 Statute considered

• Lissenden Appellant and C A v Bosch Ltd

  08 Feb 1940 [1940] AC 412, HL

  Subsequent citations: 27.
  EMPLOYMENT — Workmen's compensation — Award in favour of workman and acceptance of compensation by him
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  EMPLOYMENT — Workmen's compensation — Award in favour of workman and acceptance of compensation by him — Competency of appeal against amount of award — Approbation and reprobation — Workmen's Compensation Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 84), Sch. I. (4.).

  1 Statute considered

• Hagan v Effuah Adum

  07 Jul 1939 [1940] AC 98, PC

  ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES — West africa — Succession
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  ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES — West africa — Succession — Claim to share of deceased native's estate and distribution — Jurisdiction of Native Tribunal — Construction of Ordinance — Appeal to wrong Court — Judgment of Native Tribunal final — Native Administration Ordinance, 1928, c. 111, s. 43, sub-ss. 1, 2; ss. 74, 75.

  1 Statutory Instrument considered
• Milne v Commissioner Of Police For City Of London

  27 Jun 1939 [1940] AC 1, HL

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 1.
  GAMING — Betting house — Public telephone at premises used for communicating bets to bookmakers
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  GAMING — Betting house — Public telephone at premises used for communicating bets to bookmakers — “User of premises” — Betting Act, 1853 (16 & 17 Vict. c. 119), ss. 1, 3.

  1 Statute considered
• Prendergast v Cameron

  12 Mar 1940 [1940] AC 549, HL

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 5.
  REVENUE — Income tax — Payment of lump sum to director to induce his non-resignation
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  REVENUE — Income tax — Payment of lump sum to director to induce his non-resignation — Liability to tax — Income Tax Act, 1918 (8 & 9 Geo. 5, c. 40), Sch. E.

  1 Statute considered

• Wallace-Johnson v The King

  11 Dec 1939 [1940] AC 231, PC

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  CRIME — West africa (gold coast) — Criminal law
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  CRIME — West africa (gold coast) — Criminal law — Sedition — Newspaper article — Seditious intention — Incitement to violence not a necessary ingredient of crime of sedition — Extrinsic evidence of intention not essential — Criminal Code (Gold Coast), c. 29, s. 330, sub-s. 2 (b), (e), sub-s. 8 (now s. 326, sub-s. 2 (b), (e), sub-s. 8, of the Criminal Code, 1936 Revision, c. 9) — Construction.

  1 Statute considered