Results: 77

• Coleman, In re

  08 May 1936 [1936] Ch 528, Ch D

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 1.
  WILL — Construction — Perpetuity
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  WILL — Construction — Perpetuity — Discretionary trusts in favor of son and any wife he might marry — Ultimate trusts for son's children at twenty-one — Vested gift — Not void for remoteness.
• Hector Whaling Ltd, In re

  02 Dec 1935 [1936] Ch 208, Ch D

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 3.
  COMPANY — Special Resolution — Notice convening meeting
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  COMPANY — Special Resolution — Notice convening meeting — Length of notice — “Not less than twenty-one days” — Interpretation — Articles of Association cannot modify the Statute — Companies Act, 1929 (19 & 20 Geo. 5, c. 23), s. 117, sub-ss. 2, 6.

  1 Statute considered
• Horder, In re

  13 Jul 1936 [1936] Ch 744, Ch D

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 1.
  BANKRUPTCY — Debtors to bankrupt's estate — Motion by trustee
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  BANKRUPTCY — Debtors to bankrupt's estate — Motion by trustee — Motion directed to stand over with a view to an action — Jurisdiction of Court of Bankruptcy — Practice — Bankruptcy Act, 1914 (4 & 5 Geo. 5, c. 59), s. 105.

  1 Statute considered
• Ray’s Will Trusts, In re

  29 Apr 1936 [1936] Ch 520, Ch D

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 2.
  WILL — Gift to abbess of convent at time of testatrix's death — Attestation of will by members of convent
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  WILL — Gift to abbess of convent at time of testatrix's death — Attestation of will by members of convent — Attesting witness elected abbess before testatrix's death — Gift in trust for community — Not invalidated by attestation — Wills Act, 1837 (7 Will, 4 and 1 Vict. c. 26), s. 15.

  1 Statute considered

• In Re Anchor Line (Henderson Brothers) Ltd[No 00278 of 1935]

  29 Nov 1935 [1936] Ch 211, Ch D

  30 Jun 1936 [1937] Ch 1, CA

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  CONTRACT — Sale of goods — Sale of crane in deliverable condition
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  CONTRACT — Sale of goods — Sale of crane in deliverable condition — Delivery to purchasing company — Deferred payment — Annual payments for “interest and depreciation” — Whether property in crane passed — Winding-up of company — Sale of assets by liquidator — Liquidator treated as adopting contract — Right of vendors to balance of purchase-money — Sale of Goods Act, 1893 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 71), s. 17, sub-ss. 1, 2; s. 18, r. 1; s. 25.

  2 Statutes considered

• In Re Sharman’s Contract

  10 Jul 1936 [1936] Ch 755, Ch D

  VENDOR AND PURCHASER — Conveyance — Plan.
  FARWELL J. The question I have to decide is whether the purchaser is entitled to insist that the conveyance should be by way of plan, expressed to be for the purpose of identification only and not by way of limitation or extension of grant, even although to have the property so conveyed may involve the vendor in some expense. This seems, in this case, to be a trivial matter and one that might very easily have been dealt with by the parties without the necessity and the expense of these proceedings; but it may be that in other cases the
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  VENDOR AND PURCHASER — Conveyance — Plan.
• Bullock-Webster, In re

  20 Jun 1935 [1936] Ch 1, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral.
  REVENUE — Estate duty — Property not passing to the Executor as such
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  REVENUE — Estate duty — Property not passing to the Executor as such — Personal property in British Possessions — Estate duty thereon paid by English Executors — Rateable liability of British Possessions — Finance Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 30), s. 9, sub-ss. 1, 4; s. 20, sub-ss. 1, 2.

  1 Statute considered

• In Re Kingcome; Hickley v Kingcome

  04 Feb 1936 [1936] Ch 566, Ch D

  WILL — Annuity — Free of income tax
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  WILL — Annuity — Free of income tax — Sole income of annuitant — Refusal by annuitant to claim for relief in respect of income tax — Obligation to sign application form at request of trustees of will.

• In Re Rissik

  15 Jul 1935 [1936] Ch 68, Ch D

  DEED — Deed of arrangement — Death of Debtor
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  DEED — Deed of arrangement — Death of Debtor — All debts fully discharged by Trustee of Deed — Surplus in hands of Trustee — Creditors not entitled to Interest on their Debts without provision express or implied, in Deed — Bankruptcy Act, 1914 (4 & 5 Geo. 5, c. 59) s. 33, sub-s. 8; s. 69.

  1 Statute considered

• Spink (Bournemouth) Ltd v Spink

  10 Mar 1935 [1936] Ch 544, Ch D

  Subsequent citations: 3.
  COMPANY — Private company — Director and manager
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  COMPANY — Private company — Director and manager — Agreement to resign — Consideration payable by company — Agreement to sell shares to remaining director — Payment made by cheque drawn on company's account — Covenant not to carry on similar b

  1 Statute considered