Results: 25

• Wright v Wright

  22 Feb 1960 [1960] P 85, CA

  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Cruelty — Intention to injure
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  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Cruelty — Intention to injure — Child of marriage, brutality to — Whether cruelty to wife — Whether intention to injure necessary.
• Lilley v Lilley

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 4.

• Francis v Francis

  17 Jun 1959 [1960] P 17, DC

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Divorce — Paternity

  INFANT — Custody — Presumption of legitimacy
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  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Divorce — Paternity — Presumption of legitimacy — Adultery by wife and marital intercourse at time of conception — Husband using contraceptive sheaths.

  INFANT — Custody — Presumption of legitimacy — Use of contraceptive sheaths.
• Blacker v Blacker

  05 Apr 1960 [1960] 2 WLR 800, CA

  05 Apr 1960 [1960] P 146, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 2.
  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Desertion — Three years from presentation of petition

  PRACTICE — Non-compliance with rule of court — Dispensation by court
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  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Desertion — Three years from presentation of petition — Amendment to pleading — Amendments of cross-petition and reply to cross-petition to allege desertion — Three years' desertion not completed at date of original petition and answer — Three years' desertion completed at date of hearing — Validity of amendments — Effect of disposing of original prayer before allowing amendments — Matrimonial Causes Act, 1950 (14 Geo. 6, c. 25), s. 1 (1) (b) - — Matrimonial Causes Rules, 1957 (S.I. 1957, No. 619), r. 3 (2) — R.S.C., Ord. 70, r. 1.

  PRACTICE — Non-compliance with rule of court — Dispensation by court — Whether court empowered to authorise disregard of rule in advance — New petition for divorce before prior petition disposed of — R.S.C., Ord. 70, r. 1.

  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Desertion — Three years from presentation of petition — Amendment to pleading — Amendments of cross-petition nd reply to cross-petition to allege desertion — Three years' desertion not completed at date of original petition and answer — Three years' desertion completed at date of hearing — Validity of amendments — Effect of disposing of original prayer before allowing amendments — Matrimonial Causes Act, 1950 (14 Geo. 6, c. 25), s. 1 (1) (b) — Matrimonial Causes Rules, 1957 (S.I. 1957, No. 619), r. 3 (2) — R.S.C., Ord. 70, r. 1.

  2 Statutes considered

  2 Statutory Instruments considered
• St Swithin’s, Norwich, In re

  22 Jun 1959 [1959] 3 WLR 989, Const Ct

  22 Jun 1959 [1960] P 77, Const Ct

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 3.
  ECCLESIASTICAL LAW — Faculty — Lease

  CHARITY — Land held on trust for — Powers of trustees
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  ECCLESIASTICAL LAW — Faculty — Lease — Faculty to rector to grant option to take lease — Jurisdiction of consistory court.

  CHARITY — Land held on trust for — Powers of trustees — Incumbent of living — Church vested in him — Whether he has Settled Land Act powers — Court with jurisdiction to approve grant of lease — Application for faculty to consistory court — Settled Land Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 18), s. 29 — Charitable Trusts Amendment Act, 1855 (18 & 19 Vict. c. 124), s. 29.

  2 Statutes considered
• Whysall v Whysall

  31 Jul 1959 [1959] 3 WLR 592, PDA

  31 Jul 1959 [1960] P 52, PDA

  Subsequent considerations : 3 positive. Subsequent citations: 2.
  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Divorce — Insanity
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  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Divorce — Insanity — “Incurably of unsound mind” — Test of — Matrimonial Causes Act, 1950 (14 Geo. 6, c. 25), s. 1 (1) (d).

  2 Statutes considered
• Hobbs v Hobbs and Cousens

  21 Oct 1959 [1959] 3 WLR 942, PDA

  21 Oct 1959 [1960] P 112, PDA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 6.
  PRACTICE — Discovery — Privilege
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  PRACTICE — Discovery — Privilege — Professional privilege — Taxation of costs — Privilege attaching to brief — Divorce.

• Lilley v Lilley

  29 Oct 1958 [1960] P 158; [1958] 3 WLR 728, PDA

  30 Jul 1959 [1960] P 158; [1959] 3 WLR 306, CA

  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Maintenance — Justices
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  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Maintenance — Justices — Wilful neglect to maintain — Wife living apart from husband on medical grounds — Forced separation — Effect on husband's liability to maintain — Whether neurotic wife justified in refusing to return — Summary Jurisdiction (Married Women) Act, 1895 (58 & 59 Vict. c. 39), s. 4.

  1 Statute considered
• Zafiro, The

  06 May 1959 [1959] 3 WLR 123, PDA

  06 May 1959 [1960] P 1, PDA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 2.
  COMPANY — Winding up — Execution

  ADMIRALTY — Arrest of vessel — Action in rem
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  COMPANY — Winding up — Execution — Arrest of vessel — Action in rem — Voluntary liquidation — Whether creditor for necessaries can become secured creditor by arresting company's vessel after notice of meeting to propose voluntary winding up — Companies Act, 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6, c. 38), s. 325.

  ADMIRALTY — Arrest of vessel — Action in rem — Necessaries claim — Whether arrest “execution” — Companies Act, 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6, c. 38), ss. 228, 325.

  2 Statutes considered
• Hill (orse Petchey) v Hill

  02 Oct 1959 [1959] 3 WLR 828, PDA

  02 Oct 1959 [1960] P 130, PDA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral; 1 negative.
  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Nullity — Jurisdiction
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  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Nullity — Jurisdiction — Marriage celebrated in jurisdiction — Voidable marriage — Incapacity — Husband resident and domiciled in Scotland — Wife resident in England — Matrimonial Causes Act, 1857 (20 & 21 Vict. c. 85), s. 22 — Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 49), s. 32.

  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Nullity — Jurisdiction — Marriage celebrated in jurisdiction voidable marriage — Incapacity — Husband resident and domiciled in Scotland — Wife resident in England — Matrimonial Causes Act, 1857 (20 & 21 Vict. c. 85), s. 22 — Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 49), s. 32.

  2 Statutes considered