Results: 43

• Beer v Beer (Neilson Cited)

  30 Oct 1947 [1948] P 10, PDA

  DIVORCE — Desertion — Just cause for leaving
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  DIVORCE — Desertion — Just cause for leaving — Where adultery of other spouse is suspected — Reasonable and sufficient belief in such guilt — Burden of proof.

• Thory v Thory

  13 Feb 1948 [1948] P 236, PDA

  DIVORCE — Desertion — Non-cohabitation clause in maintenance order
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  DIVORCE — Desertion — Non-cohabitation clause in maintenance order — Deletion on appeal to Divisional Court — Effect of deletion on issue of desertion — Husband's petition on the ground of desertion.

• Barnacle v Barnacle (King’s Proctor Showing Cause)

  04 Feb 1948 [1948] P 257, PDA

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  DIVORCE — Petitioner's adultery undisclosed to court — Duty of solicitors
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  DIVORCE — Petitioner's adultery undisclosed to court — Duty of solicitors — Clarity of language.

• The Empire Gulf

  01 Mar 1948 [1948] P 168, PDA

  SHIPPING — Salvage — Apportionment of award as between the members of the crew
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  SHIPPING — Salvage — Apportionment of award as between the members of the crew — Equal amount of war risk money paid to each member irrespective of rank — Additional to basic wages — Method of assessment.

• Clifford v Clifford (No 2)

  12 Feb 1948 [1948] P 187, CA

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Nullity — Petition twenty-seven years after marriage
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  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Nullity — Petition twenty-seven years after marriage — Approbation — Sincerity — Effect of collateral motive.

• Barrett v Barrett

  23 Apr 1948 [1948] P 277, CA

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  DIVORCE — Desertion — Wife's departure from home with daughters
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  DIVORCE — Desertion — Wife's departure from home with daughters — Offer to return — Husband's refusal to have daughters back.

• In The Estate of Mortifee, Decd

  10 Mar 1948 [1948] P 274, PDA

  PROBATE — Practice — Deceased intestate and without known kin
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  PROBATE — Practice — Deceased intestate and without known kin — Grant of letters of administration to Treasury Solicitor — Exclusion of property no longer settled land — Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 49), s. 155, sub-s. 1, s. 162 — Law of Property Act, 1925 (15 Geo. 5, c. 20), s. 16 — Settled Land Act, 1925 (15 Geo. 5, c. 18), s. 7, sub-s. 5, s. 8, sub-s. 3.

  3 Statutes considered

• Tomkins v Tomkins

  23 Jan 1948 [1948] P 170, CA

  DIVORCE — Separation deed — Covenant by wife for weekly payment to husband during joint lives
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  DIVORCE — Separation deed — Covenant by wife for weekly payment to husband during joint lives — Dissolution on wife's petition — Application after decree absolute to discharge covenant.

• White (Otherwise Berry) v White

  12 May 1948 [1948] P 330, PDA

  DIVORCE — Nullity — Insistence by husband on practice of coitus interruptus
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  DIVORCE — Nullity — Insistence by husband on practice of coitus interruptus — Whether wilful refusal to consummate the marriage — The nature of consummation — Decree of nullity refused — Coitus interruptus as cruelty — Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 49), s. 176 (c) — Matrimonial Clauses Act, 1937 (1 Edw. 8 and 1 Geo. 6, c. 57), ss. 2, 7, sub-s. 1 (a).

  2 Statutes considered

• Grimes (Otherwise Edwards) v Grimes

  10 May 1948 [1948] P 323, PDA

  DIVORCE — Nullity — Insistence by husband on practice of coitus interruptus
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  DIVORCE — Nullity — Insistence by husband on practice of coitus interruptus — Whether wilful refusal to consummate the marriage — The nature of consummation — Decree of nullity.