Results: 50

• Halpern v Halpern

  21 Dec 1950 [1951] P 204, PDA

  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Marriage Settlement — Variation
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  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Marriage Settlement — Variation — Meaning of settlement — Property in both names — Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 49), s. 192.

  1 Statute considered

• Lane v Lane

  18 Apr 1951 [1951] P 284, DC

  20 Dec 1951 [1952] P 34, CA

  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Desertion — Constructive desertion
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  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Desertion — Constructive desertion — Expulsive conduct — Words intended to be final and conclusive — Condonation — Revival of constructive desertion.
• Knowles v Attorney-General

  03 May 1950 [1951] P 54, PDA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral.
  LEGITIMACY — Petition — Jurisdiction
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  LEGITIMACY — Petition — Jurisdiction — “Parent or remoter ancestor” — Construction — Whether uncle included — Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 49), s. 188 — Legitimacy Act, 1926 (16 & 17 Geo. 5, c. 60), s. 1; s. 2, sub-s. 1 — R. S. C. Ord. 25, r. 5.

  1 Statute considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• Powell v Powell

  13 Feb 1951 [1951] P 257, CA

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  DIVORCE — Maintenance — Computation
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  DIVORCE — Maintenance — Computation — Serving army officer's income — Allowances in addition to pay — Wife's income.

• Cawood, Wharton & Co Ltd v Samuel Williams & Sons Ltd The Cawood Iii

  09 Apr 1951 [1951] P 270, PDA

  SHIPPING — Contract — Construction Damage to lighter while loading at jetty
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  SHIPPING — Contract — Construction Damage to lighter while loading at jetty — Jetty-owners' liability.

• Bottoms v Bottoms

  14 Jun 1951 [1951] P 424, DC

  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Justices — Fresh evidence
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  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Justices — Fresh evidence — Application to strike out non-cohabitation clause and to vary maintenance order on ground of bona fide offer to resume cohabitation — Continuance or discharge of non-cohabitation clause to be decided first — Combined application inappropriate.
• Frank v Frank

  06 Jul 1951 [1951] P 430, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 negative.
  DIVORCE — Petition — Wife “incurably of unsound mind”
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  DIVORCE — Petition — Wife “incurably of unsound mind” — “Continuously under care and treatment” for at least five years — Detention for part of time in Scotland and part in England — Different systems of law in two countries — Break in continuity during transference — No interruption of five-year period — Decree nisi — Matrimonial Causes Act, 1937 (1 Edw. 8 & 1 Geo. 6, c. 57), ss. 2 (d), 3 — Law Reform. (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1949 (13 & 14 Geo. 6, c. 100), s. 3 — Matrimonial Causes Act, 1950 (14 & 15 Geo. 6, c. 25), s. 1, sub-ss. 1 (d), 2.

  1 Statute considered
• St Peter, St Helier, Morden, In re; In re St Olave, Mitcham

  20 Apr 1951 [1951] P 303, Const Ct

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 3.
  ECCLESIASTICAL LAW — Faculty — Stations of the Cross
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  ECCLESIASTICAL LAW — Faculty — Stations of the Cross — Ten according to the Gospel and for non-scriptural — Devotional services performed before each of the fourteen in sequence — Purpose of services — Not objects of “superstitious reverence” — Legality.

• 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.

• Maxwell v Maxwell And Rognor

  12 Oct 1950 [1951] P 212, PDA

  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Divorce — Variation of settlement
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  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Divorce — Variation of settlement — Interests of children — Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 49), s. 191, sub-s. 1, s. 192.

  1 Statute considered