Results: 47

• Hook v Hook and Brown (The King’s Proctor Showing Cause)

  26 Jan 1917 [1917] P 56, PDA

  DIVORCE — Adultery of Petitioner (Husband) undisclosed — Ignorance of Law and Practice
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  DIVORCE — Adultery of Petitioner (Husband) undisclosed — Ignorance of Law and Practice — Poor Person — Discretion exercised on King's Proctor's Intervention.

• The Achilles

  26 Jul 1917 [1917] P 218, PDA

  ADMIRALTY — Prize court — Enemy Goods
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  ADMIRALTY — Prize court — Enemy Goods — Trading between British and Neutral Branches of Enemy Firm — Trading with the Enemy Proclamation (No. 2) — Licence to Trade — Correspondence with Trading with the Enemy Committee — Goods landed ex British Ship — Seizure in Warehouse — Limits of Port of Liverpool.

• Gregson v Taylor

  22 May 1917 [1917] P 256, PDA

  Subsequent citations: 8.
  PROBATE — Will — Striking out Words
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  PROBATE — Will — Striking out Words — Knowledge and Approval — Will read over to competent Testator — Presumption of Knowledge and Approval — Evidence required to rebut Presumption.

• The Sydland and The Indianic

  31 Jul 1916 [1917] P 161, HC

  July 31. THE PRESIDENT (SIR SAMUEL EVANS), after reviewing the facts, said: “As to the claim put forward by or in the name of Alamo as neutral owner of the goods, there is no evidence of any value to support it. The onus of proving a neutral interest rests in the claimant. My conclusion is that the claim is entirely devoid of foundation, and it must be disallowed. That is enough to dispose of the case. There is no other claimant before the Court, and the goods can be condemned: see Prize Rules and The Schooner Adeline. “Proceeding to another
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• The Frederik VIII

  18 Dec 1916 [1917] P 43, PDA

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  ADMIRALTY — Prize court — “Goods” or “Commodities”
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  ADMIRALTY — Prize court — “Goods” or “Commodities” — German Government Bonds — Seizure from Letter Mail — Reprisals Order in Council of March 11, 1915.

• The Sigurd

  18 Oct 1917 [1917] P 250, PDA

  ADMIRALTY — Prize court — Seizure of Cargo under Reprisals Order in Council of March 11, 1915
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  ADMIRALTY — Prize court — Seizure of Cargo under Reprisals Order in Council of March 11, 1915 — Construction of art. IV. — Release of Cargo — Cargo Owners' Claim for Damages and Costs.

• Butler v Butler (No 10)

  06 Jul 1917 [1917] P 244, DC

  DIVORCE — Desertion — Summary Jurisdiction (Married Women) Act, 1895 (58 & 59 Vict. c. 39)
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  DIVORCE — Desertion — Summary Jurisdiction (Married Women) Act, 1895 (58 & 59 Vict. c. 39) — Good Cause for Separation.

  1 Statute considered

• The Jessie and The Zaanland

  09 May 1917 [1917] P 138, PDA

  ADMIRALTY — Collision — Steamship lying to one Anchor broken adrift by Steamship under Way
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  ADMIRALTY — Collision — Steamship lying to one Anchor broken adrift by Steamship under Way — Second Anchor not in Position to be let go — Collision with another anchored Vessel — Rules of Good Seamanship.

• The Balto

  05 Mar 1917 [1917] P 79, PDA

  ADMIRALTY — Prize court — Contraband
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  ADMIRALTY — Prize court — Contraband — Doctrine of Continuous Voyage — Raw Material destined for Neutral Factory — Product of Raw Material destined for Enemy — Discovery of Documents — Ambit of Discovery.

• The Kronprinsessan Margareta

  19 Mar 1917 [1917] P 114, PDA

  ADMIRALTY — Prize court — Contraband
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  ADMIRALTY — Prize court — Contraband — Cargoes partly Contraband and partly “Innocent” — Doctrine of Infection — Post-bellum Shipments — Transfers in Transitu — Enemy Vendors — Neutral Purchasers.