Results: 84

• In Re Gordon’s Settlement; Hunt v Mortimer

  14 Nov 1923 [1924] 1 Ch 146, Ch D

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  SETTLEMENT — Stocks transferred by Settlor into Names of Trustees — Income payable to Wife of Settlor
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  SETTLEMENT — Stocks transferred by Settlor into Names of Trustees — Income payable to Wife of Settlor — Covenant by Settlor to pay Trustees Amount deducted as Income Tax in preceding Year — Trustees to pay Amount to Wife — Income Tax Act, 1842 (5 & 6 Vict. c. 35), s. 103 — Income Tax Act, 1918 (8 & 9 Geo. 5, c. 40), All Schedule Rules, r. 23, sub-r. 2.

  2 Statutes considered
• In Re Falkiner; Mead v Smith

  16 Oct 1923 [1924] 1 Ch 88, Ch D

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive.
  WILL — Bequest — Request to Legatees to apply in Accordance with Memorandum
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  WILL — Bequest — Request to Legatees to apply in Accordance with Memorandum — Declaration that Memorandum not to “create any trust or legal obligation” — Memorandum handed to Legatees — Agreement by Legatees with Knowledge of Provisions of Will to carry out expressed Wishes — No secret Trust.
• In Re Goodwin; Ainslie v Goodwin

  30 Jan 1924 [1924] 2 Ch 26, Ch D

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 3.
  WILL — Condition — Annuity to Wife conditional upon her Release within Six Months of a Smaller Annuity secured by Testator's Covenant
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  WILL — Condition — Annuity to Wife conditional upon her Release within Six Months of a Smaller Annuity secured by Testator's Covenant — Incumbered Estate — Impossible to pay either Annuity during Wife's Life — Death of Wife without executing any Release — Personal Condition — Position of Parties — Sufficient Release by Wife's Executors.
• Deuchar v Gas Light & Coke Co

  18 Jan 1924 [1924] 1 Ch 422, Ch D

  20 Jun 1924 [1924] 2 Ch 426, CA

  11 Jun 1925 [1925] AC 691, HL

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 5.
  GAS — Statutory Company — Statutory Powers
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  GAS — Statutory Company — Statutory Powers — Incidental Powers — Express Power to convert and manufacture Residuals and to provide Materials for that Purpose — Manufacture of chemical Reagent necessary for Conversion of residual Product — Ultra vires — Gas Light and Coke Company's Act, 1868 (31 & 32 Vict. c. cvi.), ss. 40, 43 — Gas Light and Coke Company Act, 1876 (39 & 40 Vict. c. ccxxv.), ss. 5, 64 — Gas Light and Coke Company's Act, 1903 (3 Edw. 7, c. xli.), s. 13.

  3 Statutes considered

• Swan v Sinclair

  20 Dec 1923 [1924] 1 Ch 254, CA

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  EASEMENT — Right of way — Express grant
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  EASEMENT — Right of way — Express grant — Non-user — Acquiescence in Obstructions to Way — Abandonment.

• Brighton and Hove General Gas Co v Hove Bungalows Ltd

  25 Oct 1923 [1924] 1 Ch 372, Ch D

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  LAND — Foreshore — Accretion
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  LAND — Foreshore — Accretion — Natural and artificial Causes — Erection of Groynes to prevent Erosion — Accretion where former Boundary ascertainable — Recession of the Line of ordinary High Water.

• Attorney-General v Westminster City Council

  04 Jun 1924 [1924] 2 Ch 416, CA

  Subsequent citations: 5.
  LOCAL GOVERNMENT — Public Library for two Parishes — Parishes subsequently merged in Metropolitan Borough
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  LOCAL GOVERNMENT — Public Library for two Parishes — Parishes subsequently merged in Metropolitan Borough — Closing of Library — Use of Building for administrative Purposes — Ultra vires — Injunction — Public Libraries Act, 1892 (55 & 56 Vict. c. 53), ss. 11, 12 — London Government Act, 1899 (62 & 63 Vict. c. 14), s. 4 — London (Adoptive Acts) Scheme, 1900, clauses 2, 5 — City of Westminster (Adoptive Acts) Scheme, 1902.

  4 Statutes considered

• In Re Suarez (No 2)

  29 Jan 1924 [1924] 2 Ch 19, Ch D

  LAND REGISTRATION — Land transfer — Registration with absolute Title
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  LAND REGISTRATION — Land transfer — Registration with absolute Title — First registered Proprietor — Estate in Fee Simple — Crown's Right to Escheat — Land Transfer Act, 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 87), ss. 7, 105 — Land Transfer Act, 1897 (60 & 61 Vict. c. 65)

  2 Statutes considered

• Schiller v Petersen and Co Ltd

  21 Jan 1924 [1924] 1 Ch 394, CA

  MORTGAGE — Construction — Proviso for Redemption by Debentures in Event of Formation of Company to acquire Property within Six Months of Declaration of Peace
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  MORTGAGE — Construction — Proviso for Redemption by Debentures in Event of Formation of Company to acquire Property within Six Months of Declaration of Peace — Lunar or Calendar Months in Mortgage Transactions — Context as controlling Meaning — Whet

• In Re Best; Parker v Best

  18 Oct 1923 [1924] 1 Ch 42, Ch D

  MORTGAGE — Personal Covenant — Voluntary Assignment of mortgaged Property not purporting to be subject to Charge
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  MORTGAGE — Personal Covenant — Voluntary Assignment of mortgaged Property not purporting to be subject to Charge — Retention by Mortgagees of Debt out of Proceeds of mortgaged Property — Right of Recoupment out of Assignor's Estate.