Results: 166

• Imperial Mercantile Credit Association v Coleman

  10 Feb 1871 LR 6 Ch App 558, CA

  Subsequent citations: 2.
  COMPANY — Trustees — Profit by Director.
  Feb. 10. LORD HATHERLEY, L.C.:— This is a case in which the official liquidator of the Imperial Mercantile Credit Association, in the name of the company, has filed a bill in order to have it declared that a certain sum of money received by the Defendants from the London, Chatham, and Dover Company, or from them through Sir Morton Peto, is a sum for which Mr. Coleman, who was a director of the company, is answerable to the company on the general principle that a person holding a fiduciary position with regard to a company cannot obtain for himself a
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  COMPANY — Trustees — Profit by Director.

• In re Agriculturist Cattle Insurance Co (No 4) (Bush's case)

  19 Dec 1870 LR 6 Ch App 246, CA

  COMPANY — Directors — Transfer
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  COMPANY — Directors — Transfer — Execution of Deed — Registration — Certificate — Duty of Directors — Lapse of Time — Value of Goodwill.

• In re Professional, Commercial, and Industrial Benefit Building Society

  01 Aug 1871 LR 6 Ch App 856, CA

  COMPANY — Winding-up Petition — Benefit Building Society
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  COMPANY — Winding-up Petition — Benefit Building Society — Locus standi of Petitioners — Advanced Members — Release of Petitioners' Debt — Insolvency of Company.

• Phillipson v Gibbon

  13 Mar 1871 LR 6 Ch App 428, CA

  LIMITATION OF ACTION — Statute of limitations — Boundary Wall
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  LIMITATION OF ACTION — Statute of limitations — Boundary Wall — Specific Performance — Costs.

• Vernon v Vernon

  25 Jul 1871 LR 6 Ch App 833, CA

  PRACTICE — Amendment — Time
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  PRACTICE — Amendment — Time — Cons. Ord. XXXVII. r. 18.

• Heinrich v Sutton (In re Fiddey (A Solicitor))

  02 Aug 1871 LR 6 Ch App 865, CA

  SOLICITOR — Solicitor's lien — Charge under 23 & 24 Vict. c. 127, s. 28
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  SOLICITOR — Solicitor's lien — Charge under 23 & 24 Vict. c. 127, s. 28 — Practice — Jurisdiction.

• Whiting v Burke

  27 Jul 1870 LR 10 Eq 539, Equity

  15 Mar 1871 LR 6 Ch App 342, CA

  BOND — Co-sureties — Sureties by separate Instruments.
  SIR W. M. JAMES, L.J.:— This appeal entirely fails. The original bond contained a very stringent provision, that no arrangement whatever between the principal debtor and creditor, as to giving time to the debtor or one of the sureties, should release the other surety — a provision perhaps not unreasonable, because the giving of time usually operates in favour of the sureties. Then the Plaintiff signed an instrument, professing in terms to be made by way of additional security, for payment of the bond “according to the tenor thereof” - that is, the Plaintiff says: “You have now only one
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  BOND — Co-sureties — Sureties by separate Instruments.

• In re Leigh’s Estate

  04 Aug 1871 LR 6 Ch App 887, CA

  COMPENSATION — Compensation under lands clauses act, 1845, s. 68 — Tenant for Life and Remainderman
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  COMPENSATION — Compensation under lands clauses act, 1845, s. 68 — Tenant for Life and Remainderman — Permanent Improvements and Repairs — New Buildings.

  1 Statute considered

• In re United Service Co (No 2) (Johnston's claim)

  31 Jan 1871 LR 6 Ch App 212, CA

  DAMAGES — Remoteness of damage — Deposit for safe Custody with Bankers
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  DAMAGES — Remoteness of damage — Deposit for safe Custody with Bankers — Negligence — Forged Transfer — Costs in Suit to recover Certificates.
• Attorney-General v Great Eastern Railway Co

  22 Mar 1871 LR 6 Ch App 572, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral.
  PUBLIC AUTHORITY — Public body — Riparian Proprietors
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  PUBLIC AUTHORITY — Public body — Riparian Proprietors — Evidence.