Results: 56

• Marvin Sigurdson v British Columbia Electric Railway Co Ltd

  21 Jul 1952 [1953] AC 291, PC

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  NEGLIGENCE — Canada (british columbia) — Negligence
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  NEGLIGENCE — Canada (british columbia) — Negligence — Motor-car — Collision — Liability — Contributory negligence — Principles applicable — Alleged misdirection.
• General Cleaning Contractors Ltd v Christmas

  10 Dec 1952 [1953] AC 180; [1953] 2 WLR 6, HL

  Subsequent considerations : 5 positive; 1 neutral; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 14.
  NEGLIGENCE — Safe system of work — Window-cleaning
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  NEGLIGENCE — Safe system of work — Window-cleaning — Defective window — Injury to window-cleaner — Lack of precautions — Employers liability.
• Union Corpn Ltd v Inland Revenue Commissioners

  22 Feb 1952 [1952] 1 All ER 646; [1952] 1 TLR 651, CA

  09 Mar 1953 [1953] AC 482; [1953] 2 WLR 615, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 2 neutral. Subsequent citations: 2.
  REVENUE — Profits tax — Residence
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  REVENUE — Profits tax — Residence — Companies resident both in United Kingdom and abroad — Whether “ordinarily resident outside the United Kingdom” — Test of dual residence — Control and management — Finance Act, 1947 (10 & 11 Geo. 6, c. 35), s. 39 (1).

  1 Statute considered
• King v King

  05 Jul 1953 [1953] 3 WLR 433, PDA

  12 Oct 1953 [1954] P 55; [1953] 3 WLR 767, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; 3 neutral. Subsequent citations: 1.
  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Maintenance — High Court

  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Divorce — Cruelty
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  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Maintenance — High Court — Jurisdiction — Parties judicially separated Wife's application for secured maintenance — Meaning of “jurisdiction” in Matrimonial Causes Act, 1950 (14 Geo. 6, c. 25), s. 23.

  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Divorce — Cruelty — Husband's petition — Nagging — Matters to be taken into consideration.

  1 Statute considered
• Govindan Sellappah Nayar Kodakan Pillai v Punchi Banda Mudanayake

  11 May 1953 [1953] AC 514, PC

  Subsequent considerations : 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 5.
  NATIONALITY — Ceylon — Citizenship
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  NATIONALITY — Ceylon — Citizenship — Indian Tamils — Franchise — Definitive legislation — Constitutional validity — “Pith and substance” rule — Alternative citizenship qualifications — Ceylon (Constitution and Independence) Order in Council, 1946, as amended to 1947, s. 29 (2) (b) — Citizenship Act, No. 18 of 1948, ss. 4, 5 — Ceylon (Parliamentary Elections) Amendment Act, No. 48 of 1949, s. 4 (1) (a) — Indian and Pakistani Residents (Citizenship) Act, No. 3 of 1949.

  1 Statute considered

• Stool Of Abinabina v Chief Kojo Enyimadu (On Behalf Of The Stool Of Nkasawura)

  12 Jan 1953 [1953] AC 207, PC

  LAND — West africa — Land
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  LAND — West africa — Land — Claim to declaration of title — Proof by traditional evidence — Point of law not taken below — Exception to rule as to concurrent findings of fact.

• The Hermes and Other Structures (Schiffahrt-Treuhand, GMBH, v Her Majesty’s Procurator-General)

  10 May 1951 [1951] P 347, PDA (Lord Merriman, P.)

  12 Jan 1953 [1953] AC 232, PC (Viscount Simon, Lord Porter, Lord Normand, Lord Cohen.)

  SHIPPING — Prize — Occupation of German ports during hostilities

  SHIPPING — Prize — Capture of enemy ports
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  SHIPPING — Prize — Occupation of German ports during hostilities — Vessels in various stages of construction in building yards — Informal seizure — Formal seizure after surrender of Germany — Whether act of conscious volition to seize on capture of port essential — Whether subjects of maritime prize — Effect of enemy capitulation on right in prize.

  SHIPPING — Prize — Capture of enemy ports — Partly built vessels — Physical capture a taking in prize — Intention to seize gives jurisdiction — Uncompleted vessel, not capable of floating, a maritime prize — Continuance of right of seizure after unconditional surrender of enemy High Command.

• Seereelall Jhuggroo v Central Arbitration And Control Board

  06 Oct 1952 [1953] AC 151, PC

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  JURISDICTION — Mauritius — Sugar industry
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  JURISDICTION — Mauritius — Sugar industry — Extraction — Payment to planters — Jurisdiction of Arbitration and Control Board — Certiorari and mandamus — Sale of Canes (Control) Ordinance, No. 47 of 1941, ss. 6 (1) (2), 15, 21.

  1 Statute considered

• Hardial Singh v Malayan Theatres Ltd

  20 Jul 1953 [1953] AC 632; [1953] 3 WLR 491, PC

  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Singapore — Landlord and tenant
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  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Singapore — Landlord and tenant — Rent control — Business premises — Multiple business — Claim to possession of one set of premises — Alternative accommodation — Where business displaced can be adequately carried on — Control of Rent Ordinance, No. 25 of 1947, s. 14 (1) (m).

  1 Statute considered

• Noorul Muheetha v Sittie Rafeeka Leyaudeen

  12 Jan 1953 [1953] AC 320, PC

  RELIGION — Ceylon — Mahomedans
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  RELIGION — Ceylon — Mahomedans — Gift of immovable property — Fidei commissum — Acceptance — Governed by Muslim law — Authority of mother of infant donee to accept.