Results: 88

• Broadstairs Picture House Ltd v Littman

  09 Jul 1940 [1940] Ch 860, Ch D

  VENDOR AND PURCHASER — Contract for sale of land — Purchaser in possession
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  VENDOR AND PURCHASER — Contract for sale of land — Purchaser in possession — Non-compliance by purchaser — Judgment for specific performance — Non-compliance — Motion for rescission and forfeiture of deposit — Courts (Emergency Powers) Act, 1939 (2 & 3 Geo. 6, c. 67), s. 1, sub-s. 1.

  1 Statute considered

• Banks v Ripley

  06 May 1940 [1940] Ch 719, Ch D

  RECTIFICATION — Settlement — Evidence of intention
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  RECTIFICATION — Settlement — Evidence of intention — No evidence apart from document itself — Jurisdiction of Court.
• Luck’s Settlement Trusts, In re, Walker v Luck

  26 Jan 1940 [1940] Ch 323, Ch D

  21 Jun 1940 [1940] Ch 864, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 4.
  LEGITIMACY — Child born in California — Born out of wedlock
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  LEGITIMACY — Child born in California — Born out of wedlock — Father a British subject — Californian domicil subsequently acquired by father — Legitimation by declaration according to Californian law — Whether child entitled to take under trusts of English settlement.

• In Re Lidington; Lidington v Thomans (No 2)

  30 Jul 1940 [1940] Ch 927, Ch D

  WILL — Wife disinherited — Infant children
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  WILL — Wife disinherited — Infant children — Separation deed — Maintenance — Death of husband — End of maintenance — Widow's application for maintenance out of estate — Inheritance (Family Provision) Act, 1938 (1 & 2 Geo. 6, c. 45), s. 1, sub-ss. 1, 3, 4, 7; s. 4.

  1 Statute considered

• In Re Milking Pail Farm Trusts; Tucker v Robinson

  24 Jul 1940 [1940] Ch 996, Ch D

  LIMITATION OF ACTIONS — Land held by tenants in common before 1926 — Mortgage
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  LIMITATION OF ACTIONS — Land held by tenants in common before 1926 — Mortgage — No payment in respect of capital or interest — Whether claim barred — Real Property Limitation Act, 1874 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 57), s. 8 — Law of Property Act, 1925 (15 Geo. 5, c. 20), s. 35, Sch. I., Part IV., para. 1 (4.).

  2 Statutes considered

• In Re Henderson; Public Trustee v Reddie

  22 Feb 1940 [1940] Ch 368, Ch D

  APPORTIONMENT — Dividends — Endowment fund to be raised after tenant for life's death and administered by trustees of will
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  APPORTIONMENT — Dividends — Endowment fund to be raised after tenant for life's death and administered by trustees of will — Appropriation to answer fund — Dividends accruing to tenant for life's death — Payable to personal representatives — Apportionment Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 35), ss. 2, 3, 4, 5.

  1 Statute considered

• In Re Birchall

  14 Feb 1940 [1940] Ch 424, CA

  WILL — Construction — Gift to children in equal shares
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  WILL — Construction — Gift to children in equal shares — Proviso that, if any child “shall” die in lifetime of testatrix leaving children who attain twenty-one, such children to take their parent's share — Child of testatrix already dead before date of her will but leaving children who have attained twenty-one — Whether such children entitled to share of her estate.

• In Re A Debtor, Ex Parte Dunn Trust Ltd

  09 Nov 1939 [1940] Ch 65, DC

  BANKRUPTCY — Action in High Court on promissory note — Judgment not satisfied
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  BANKRUPTCY — Action in High Court on promissory note — Judgment not satisfied — Leave given in High Court to proceed to enforcement — Bankruptcy petition presented in county court — Courts (Emergency Powers) Act, 1939 (2 & 3 Geo. 6, c. 67), s. 1, sub-s. 1 — Courts (Emergency Powers) Rules, 1939 (S. R. & O., 1939, No. 995/L. 14), r. 2.

  1 Statute considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• In Re An Application By The Royal Bank Of Scotland

  09 Jul 1940 [1940] Ch 857, Ch D

  MORTGAGE — Notice by mortgagees calling in moneys — Three months not expired
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  MORTGAGE — Notice by mortgagees calling in moneys — Three months not expired — Application by mortgagees for leave to exercise powers — Law of Property Act, 1925 (15 Geo. 5, c. 20), s. 103 — Courts (Emergency Powers) Act, 1939 (2 & 3 Geo. 6, c. 67), s. 1.

  2 Statutes considered

• Camden Nominees Ltd v Forcey

  27 Feb 1940 [1940] Ch 352, Ch D

  Subsequent citations: 4.
  CONTRACT — Inducement to breach of contract — Dispute between owners and tenants of flats
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  CONTRACT — Inducement to breach of contract — Dispute between owners and tenants of flats — Tenants' association formed — Threat to withhold rent — Rent actually withhold — Common interest no justification in law.