Results: 487

• Lea v Moore

  13 Dec 1954 [1955] 1 WLR 38, CA

  COUNTY COURT — Jurisdiction — Question of title to land
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  COUNTY COURT — Jurisdiction — Question of title to land — Lease — Assignment or guarantee — County Courts Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 53), ss. 40, 43, 51.

  1 Case considered

  1 Statute considered

• Simpkins v Pays

  14 Jun 1955 [1955] 1 WLR 975, Assizes

  CONTRACT — Formation — Intention to create legal relationship
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  CONTRACT — Formation — Intention to create legal relationship — Competition — Fashion competition in newspaper — Three forecasts by different persons in one coupon — Coupon submitted in defendant's name — Agreement to “go shares” — Claim to recover share of prize — Intention to create legal relations.
• Payne v Weldless Steel Tube Co Ltd

  27 Oct 1955 [1956] 1 QB 196, CA

  27 Oct 1955 [1955] 3 WLR 771, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive.
  FACTORY — Floor — Maintenance

  FACT OR LAW — Fact or law.
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  FACTORY — Floor — Maintenance — Depression in floor filled by loose steel plate — Accident to workman — No breach of statutory duty unless floor unsafe — Safety a question of fact — Factories Act, 1937 (1 Edw. 8 & 1 Geo. 6, c. 67), ss. 25 (1), 26 (1).

  FACT OR LAW — Fact or law.

  2 Statutes considered

• B v B (No 3)

  05 Apr 1955 [1955] 1 WLR 559, CA

  HOUSE OF LORDS — Appeal to — Leave to appeal

  FACT OR LAW — Judicial discretion. Infant — Custody
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  HOUSE OF LORDS — Appeal to — Leave to appeal — Matrimonial cause — Infant — Custody — Religious upbringing — Whether question of law raised — Question of discretion — Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 49), s. 27 (2).

  FACT OR LAW — Judicial discretion. Infant — Custody — Divorce Court.

  1 Statute considered
• Rusholme & Bolton & Roberts Hadfield Ltd v S G Read & Co (London) Ltd

  20 Dec 1954 [1955] 1 WLR 146, Assizes

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral.
  AGENCY — Contract — Parties
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  AGENCY — Contract — Parties — Confirming house — Principal an Australian company, agent an English confirming house — Original indent by Australian company upon manufacturer containing term “confirmation and payment by” agent — Agent's contract with manufacturer for purchase of goods — Original indent cancelled by Australian company — Whether agent liable as principal.
• Lake v Lake

  19 May 1955 [1955] P 336; [1955] 3 WLR 145; [1955] 2 All ER 538, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 4 neutral; 2 negative. Subsequent citations: 45.
  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Divorce — Practice

  COURT OF APPEAL — Jurisdiction — “Judgment or order”
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  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Divorce — Practice — Form of judgment — Petition dismissed — Condoned adultery — Whether finding of adultery appealable by successful respondent.

  COURT OF APPEAL — Jurisdiction — “Judgment or order” — Meaning — Whether right of appeal against findings not contained in formal order — Supreme Court of Judicature Consolidation) Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 49), s. 27 — R.S.C., Ord. 58, r. 1.

  1 Statute considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• In Re Arnould, Decd; Arnould v Lloyd

  21 Apr 1955 [1955] 1 WLR 539, Ch D

  WILL — Construction — Omission
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  WILL — Construction — Omission — Gift of income during minority — Whether gift of corpus implied — Bequest of “All other money … up in trust for my four grandchildren … until each reaches the age of twenty-five years” — Conflict of authorities — Ordinary rule of construction applicable — No gift of corpus. Punctuation — Nonsensical full stop — Construed as comma.

  3 Case(s) considered

• Practice Direction (Powers of Masters Under RSC, Ord 55, R 15)

  30 Mar 1955 [1955] 1 WLR 427, Ch D

  PRACTICE — Practice and procedure — Chancery Division
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  PRACTICE — Practice and procedure — Chancery Division — Master — Powers — Amendment of R.S.C., Ord. 55, r. 15.

  1 Statutory Instrument considered
• Bevan v Bevan (No 2)

  10 Oct 1955 [1955] 1 WLR 1142, PDA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive.
  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Divorce — Desertion
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  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Divorce — Desertion — Termination — State of deserted party's mind — Words spoken as result of deserted party's justified sense of grievance — Metaphorical not physical prevention of cohabitation.

  4 Case(s) considered

• In Re Harrison’s Share under a Settlement; Harrison v Harrison

  28 May 1954 [1955] Ch 260; [1954] 3 WLR 156, Ch D

  21 Dec 1954 [1955] Ch 260; [1955] 2 WLR 256, CA

  Subsequent citations: 17.
  PRACTICE — Practice and procedure — Order
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  PRACTICE — Practice and procedure — Order — Recall — Chancery Division — Jurisdiction — Jurisdiction of judge to recall order pronounced but not entered — Whether only exercisable on application by party to suit.