Results: 506

• Bamgbose v Daniel

  12 Oct 1954 [1955] AC 107; [1954] 3 WLR 561; [1954] 3 All ER 263, PC

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 1.
  ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES — West africa (nigeria) — Succession

  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Succession — Legitimacy
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  ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES — West africa (nigeria) — Succession — Intestacy — Child of marriage under Marriage Ordinance, 1884 — Polygamous marriages — In accordance with native law and custom — Right of issue to succeed on intestacy — Applicability of law of England — Marriage Ordinance, No. 14 of 1884 (Lagos), s. 41 — Statute of Distributions, 1670 (22 & 23 Car. 2, c. 10).

  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Succession — Legitimacy — Domicile of parents at birth of child — Polygamous marriage.

  2 Statutes considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• Nkau Majara v The Queen

  23 Mar 1954 [1954] 2 WLR 771, PC

  CRIME — Basutoland — Criminal law

  CRIME — Criminal law. statutory penal provision — Whether limiting penalty for graver offence. Roman-Dutch law.
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  CRIME — Basutoland — Criminal law — Accessory after the fact — Murder — Ritual murder — Headman — Requirements of Roman-Dutch law — “Association” with principal offence — Impassive conduct which assists principal offender to escape — Native Administration Proclamation (Laws of Basutoland, 1949, c. 54), ss. 6 (3), 14.

  CRIME — Criminal law. statutory penal provision — Whether limiting penalty for graver offence. Roman-Dutch law.

• In Re Burton’s Settlements; Scott v National Provincial Bank Ltd

  28 Jul 1954 [1954] 3 WLR 581, Ch D

  POWER OF APPOINTMENT — Fraud on power — Benefit to non-object

  WILL — Construction — Uncertainty
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  POWER OF APPOINTMENT — Fraud on power — Benefit to non-object — Purpose — Settlement — Power of appointment among issue — Testamentary execution in favour of objects of power — Enjoyment of testator's residue conditional on settlement of appointed property by objects in favour of themselves and of non-objects.

  WILL — Construction — Uncertainty — Condition subsequent — Settlement to be executed — “Within such period as my trustees shall think reasonable.” Will — Construction — Exclusion if condition unsatisfied — “Will to take effect as if sue had not been my daughter” — Effect on exercise of power of appointment by will. Settlement — Voluntary — Spes successionis — Settlement required by condition in will — Settlement of spes successionis not required — Inclusion of spes successionis irrevocable — Settlement not voluntary.
• In re Sanders’ Will Trusts

  24 Feb 1954 [1954] Ch 265; [1954] 2 WLR 487; [1954] 1 All ER 667, Ch D

  Subsequent considerations : 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 3.
  CHARITY — Relief of poverty — Working classes

  CHARITY — Cy-près doctrine — “General charitable intention”
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  CHARITY — Relief of poverty — Working classes — Gift “to provide dwellings for the working classes in the area of P.”

  CHARITY — Cy-près doctrine — “General charitable intention” — Express — Ineffective. “Working class.”

• Cilia v H M James & Sons (Spark, third party)

  30 Mar 1954 [1954] 1 WLR 721, QBD

  NEGLIGENCE — Safe system of work — Dangerous premises
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  NEGLIGENCE — Safe system of work — Dangerous premises — Employer's duty — Employee required to work on premises not in the occupation of the employer — Faulty electrical conduit — Employee electrocuted — Duty of employer to his workman.

  2 Case(s) considered
• Meli v The Queen

  13 Jan 1954 [1954] 1 WLR 228, PC

  Subsequent considerations : 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 3.
  CRIME — Basutoland — Criminal law

  CRIME — Criminal law.
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  CRIME — Basutoland — Criminal law — Murder — Erroneous belief of accused that blows caused death — Whether mens rea in respect of their subsequent acts which in fact caused death — Preconceived plot to kill — One inseparable transaction.

  CRIME — Criminal law.

  1 Case considered

• Prescott v Birmingham Corpn

  15 Oct 1954 [1954] 3 WLR 600, Ch D

  30 Nov 1954 [1955] Ch 210; [1954] 3 WLR 990, CA

  Subsequent citations: 13.
  LOCAL GOVERNMENT — Powers — Corporation

  TRANSPORT — Transport.
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  LOCAL GOVERNMENT — Powers — Corporation — Transport — Free travel facilities for old persons in need — Payment out of general rate fund — Validity — Birmingham Corporation Act, 1903 (3 Edw. 7, c. cxcii), s. 31 — Birmingham Corporation Act, 1914 (4 & 5 Geo. 5, c. cvi), s. 12 (1) — Birmingham Corporation Act, 1954 (2 & 3 Eliz. 2, c. xliv), ss. 51, 55 — Road Traffic Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 43), ss. 72, 104.

  TRANSPORT — Transport.

  1 Statute considered

• British Transport Commission v Worcestershire County Council

  07 May 1954 [1954] 1 WLR 850, QBD

  JUSTICES — Case stated — Case stated by consent

  HIGHWAY — Easement — Right of way. Easement.
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  JUSTICES — Case stated — Case stated by consent — Application for declaration under National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act, 1949 — Original jurisdiction of quarter sessions to make declaration — Jurisdiction in High Court to hear application on case stated — Quarter Sessions Act, 1849 (12 & 13 Vict. c. 45), s. 11 — National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act, 1949 (12, 13 & 14 Geo. 6, c. 97), s. 31.

  HIGHWAY — Easement — Right of way. Easement.

  1 Statute considered

• Bravery v Bravery

  26 Jul 1954 [1954] 1 WLR 1169, CA

  Subsequent citations: 3.
  DIVORCE — Cruelty — Sterilisation of husband

  CRIME — Criminal law — Assault
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  DIVORCE — Cruelty — Sterilisation of husband — After birth of first child — Whether sterilisation cruelty.

  CRIME — Criminal law — Assault — Sterilisation — Legality.

  3 Case(s) considered
• Inland Revenue Comrs v Broadway Cottages Trust

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; 1 neutral; 4 negative. Subsequent citations: 7.