Results: 77

• Attorney-General v Dean and Canons Of Manchester

  22 Jun 1881 18 ChD 596, Ch D

  EDUCATION — Collegiate body — Surplus Revenues to be paid to Ecclesiastical Commissioners for Administration
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  EDUCATION — Collegiate body — Surplus Revenues to be paid to Ecclesiastical Commissioners for Administration — Action against Collegiate Body for Accounts — Charity — Charitable Trusts Act, 1853 (16 & 17 Vict. c. 137), ss. 17, 62 — Consent of Charity Commissioners — Mandamus.

  1 Statute considered

• In Re Silver Valley Mines (No 1)

  02 Aug 1881 18 ChD 472, CA

  COMPANY — Business never commenced — Winding-up
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  COMPANY — Business never commenced — Winding-up — Jurisdiction of High Court — Stannaries Court — Companies Act, 1862, ss. 81, 116.

  1 Statute considered
• Bainbrigge v Browne

  19 May 1881 18 ChD 188, Ch D

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 2 neutral. Subsequent citations: 20.
  UNDUE INFLUENCE — Father and Child — Deed executed by Child in favour of Father
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  UNDUE INFLUENCE — Father and Child — Deed executed by Child in favour of Father — Onus Probandi — Purchaser for Value without Notice.

• In Re Hopkins; Williams v Hopkins

  29 Jun 1881 18 ChD 370, CA

  ADMINISTRATION — Proof by Secured Creditor — Judicature Act, 1875, s. 10
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  ADMINISTRATION — Proof by Secured Creditor — Judicature Act, 1875, s. 10 — Bankruptcy Rules, 1870, rr. 99, 100, 101.

  1 Statute considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• Otto v Lindford

  03 Aug 1881 18 ChD 394, CA

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  PRACTICE — Appeal — Staying Proceedings
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  PRACTICE — Appeal — Staying Proceedings — Action dismissed — Rules of Court, 1875, Order LVIII., rr. 16, 17.

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• In Re Birmingham and Lichfield Junction Railway Co

  28 May 1881 18 ChD 155, Ch D

  RAILWAY — Railway company — Abandonment
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  RAILWAY — Railway company — Abandonment — Parliamentary Deposit — Judgment Creditor — Undertaking — Receiver — Unpaid Calls — Railway Companies Act, 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 127), ss. 4, 31, 35 — Abandonment of Railways Act, 1869 (32 & 33 Vict. c. 114).

  2 Statutes considered

• In Re Bywater; Bywater v Clarke

  13 Apr 1881 18 ChD 17, CA

  WILL — Inconsistent Clauses — Direction as to Time of Payment inconsistent with prior Gift.
  JESSEL, M.R.:— To my mind this is a clear case. If I were compelled to resort to the rule of thumb, as I sometimes call it, that where there are two inconsistent clauses the latter shall prevail, that would give the applicant what she asks for. But I think the case may be decided without resorting to that extreme rule. The testator begins by giving to his wife during widowhood and until all his four daughters by his late wife shall attain twenty-one or die under that age, an annuity of £800, and in respect of each of such daughters
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  WILL — Inconsistent Clauses — Direction as to Time of Payment inconsistent with prior Gift.

• Dearsly v Middleweek

  30 Jun 1881 18 ChD 236, Ch D

  COSTS — Co-Defendants — Contribution.
  FRY, J.:— This is an application for which there appears to be no precedent, and I shall not make one. I shall follow the dictum which has been cited to me from the Court of Appeal in Real and Personal Advance Company v. McCarthy, and hold that a defendant cannot proceed against a co-defendant for contribution in respect of costs to which both are equally liable.
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  COSTS — Co-Defendants — Contribution.

• Ex Parte Harrison, In Re Betts

  30 Jun 1881 18 ChD 127, CA

  MORTGAGE — Attornment clause — Distress
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  MORTGAGE — Attornment clause — Distress — Application of Proceeds.
• Ex Parte Jones, In Re Jones (No 4)

  23 Jun 1881 18 ChD 109, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 negative.
  BANKRUPTCY — Adjudication of Bankruptcy — Infant
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  BANKRUPTCY — Adjudication of Bankruptcy — Infant — Trading Contract — Bankruptcy Act, 1869 (32 & 33 Vict. c. 71), ss. 6, 125, sub-s. 12 — Infants' Relief Act, 1874 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 62), s. 1.

  2 Statutes considered