Results: 53

• In Re Bourgoise

  21 Mar 1889 41 ChD 310, CA

  INFANT — Guardian — Nationality
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  INFANT — Guardian — Nationality — Jurisdiction — Alien — French Subject — Naturalization — British Subject — Certificate of Naturalization — Qualification — Naturalization Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 14), s. 7 [Revised Ed. Statutes, vol. xvi., p. 271].

  1 Statute considered

• Edison & Swan United Electric Light Co v Holland (No2)

  18 Feb 1889 41 ChD 28, CA

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  PATENT — Action for infringement — Third Parties
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  PATENT — Action for infringement — Third Parties — Application by Plaintiffs, after Judgment on Appeal, to amend by making Third Parties Defendants — Costs as against Third Parties — Rules of Supreme Court, 1883, Order XVI., rr. 48, 49, 52, 53, 54.

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• In Re Skegness and St Leonard’s Tramways Co, Ex Parte Hanly

  21 Dec 1888 41 ChD 215, CA

  COMPANY — Winding-up — Costs of obtaining Special Act incorporating Company
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  COMPANY — Winding-up — Costs of obtaining Special Act incorporating Company — Costs of obtaining further Special Act after Incorporation of Company — Claim by Parliamentary Agent — Promoter — Companies Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vic

  1 Statute considered

• In Re Dean; Cooper-Dean v Stevens

  09 Apr 1889 41 ChD 552, Ch D

  WILL — Construction — Trust for Benefit of Specified Animals
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  WILL — Construction — Trust for Benefit of Specified Animals — Validity — Gift on trust or beneficially.

• In Re Yeadon Local Board and Yeadon Waterworks Co

  26 Feb 1889 41 ChD 52, CA

  LOCAL GOVERNMENT — Local board — Arbitration
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  LOCAL GOVERNMENT — Local board — Arbitration — Umpire — Time for making Award — Public Health Act, 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 55), s. 180, sub-s. 9 [Revised Ed. Statutes, vol. xvii., p. 578].

  1 Statute considered

• Duncan v Lawson

  06 Apr 1889 41 ChD 394, Ch D

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Domicil — Intestacy
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  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Domicil — Intestacy — Lex Loci — Leaseholds — Bequests invalid by English Law — Devolution of English Leaseholds belonging to domiciled Scotchman.

• In Re Bowman

  18 May 1889 41 ChD 525, Ch D

  WILL — Construction — “Surviving”
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  WILL — Construction — “Surviving” — Gift in Shares to Tenants for Life and their Children — Gift over, if any Tenant for Life die without Children, to the surviving Tenants for Life and their respective Children in the same manner as their Original Shares — Absence of General Gift over if all the Tenants for Life die without Children.

• Davis v Starr

  28 Feb 1889 41 ChD 242, CA

  ARBITRATION — Arbitration Clause — Dismissal of Agent
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  ARBITRATION — Arbitration Clause — Dismissal of Agent — Action to restrain Dismissal — Motion to stay Proceedings — Common Law Procedure Act, 1854 (17 & 18 Vict. c. 125), s. 11 [Revised Ed. Statutes, vol. xii., p. 411].

  1 Statute considered

• Bainbridge v Smith

  09 May 1889 41 ChD 462, CA

  Subsequent citations: 3.
  COMPANY — Director's Qualification — Shares held “in his own right.”
  COTTON, L.J.:— This is an appeal from a decision of Mr. Justice Stirling granting an injunction to restrain the Defendants from preventing the Plaintiff from acting as a managing director of a company called Henry Mitchell & Co., Limited. The Defendants are the board, consisting of the ordinary directors and the managing directors of the company. The Plaintiff claims to be one of the managing directors, and there is a contest as to whether he is entitled to be considered as a managing director. The company was formed in consequence of a contract that was entered into in January, 1888.
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  COMPANY — Director's Qualification — Shares held “in his own right.”

• In Re David; Buckley v Royal National Lifeboat Institution

  26 Feb 1889 41 ChD 168, Ch D

  13 Nov 1889 43 ChD 27, CA

  CHARITY — Mortmain — Interest in Land
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  CHARITY — Mortmain — Interest in Land — Bonds of Harbour Trustees — Assignment of “rates, tolls, rents, &c.” — 9 Geo. 2, c. 36 [Revised Ed. Statutes, vol. ii., p. 403].