Results: 61

• In Re I G Farbenindustrie AG Agreement (No 2)

  15 Oct 1943 [1944] Ch 41, CA

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  PRACTICE — Summons — Originating summons
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  PRACTICE — Summons — Originating summons — Joinder of parties — Commercial, not legal, interest — R.S.C., Or. XVI, r. 11.

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• In Re Hill; Westminster Bank Limited v Wilson

  31 Mar 1944 [1944] Ch 270, CA

  ADMINISTRATION — Annuities — Charge on capital and income
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  ADMINISTRATION — Annuities — Charge on capital and income — Estate insufficient to pay annuities out of income — Valuation — Payment out of income and of deficit out of capital.

• In Re Osmund; Midland Bank Executor & Trustee Co Ltd, v Mason

  01 Dec 1943 [1944] Ch 66, Ch D

  CHARITY — Charitable bequest — Validity
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  CHARITY — Charitable bequest — Validity — Application of fund “to medical profession for the furtherance of psychological healing.”

• In Re Osmund; Midland Bank Executor and Trustee Co Ltd v Attorney-General

  03 Feb 1944 [1944] Ch 206, CA

  CHARITY — Charitable bequest — Gift to trustees “in their absolute discretion to apply the same to the medical profession for the furtherance of psychological healing in accordance with the teaching of Jesus Christ.”
  LORD GREENE M.R. The question which we have to decide is whether or not this is a valid charitable gift. Bennett J. held that it was not. It is not open to dispute that where the language of a gift, on its true construction, makes it possible for the subject-matter of the gift to be applied for non-charitable purposes, that gift is not a good charitable gift even although the greater part of the purposes may be truly charitable. It is sufficient to destroy the charitable nature of the gift if, on its true construction, it is possible for those
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  CHARITY — Charitable bequest — Gift to trustees “in their absolute discretion to apply the same to the medical profession for the furtherance of psychological healing in accordance with the teaching of Jesus Christ.”

• In Re W & R Holmes and Cosmopolitan Press Ltd’s Contract

  04 Nov 1943 [1944] Ch 53, Ch D

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  WILL — Trustee — Sale
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  WILL — Trustee — Sale — Duration of power — Life interests to children — Reversionary interests to grandchildren or remoter issue.

• In Re Serpell & Co Ltd

  13 Mar 1944 [1944] Ch 233, Ch D

  COMPANY — Reduction of Capital — Redeemable preference shares already redeemed
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  COMPANY — Reduction of Capital — Redeemable preference shares already redeemed — Whether part of nominal capital — Companies Act, 1929 (19 & 20 Geo. 5, c. 23), s. 46, sub-s. 4.

  1 Statute considered

• Schering Ltd v Stockholms Enskilda Bank

  12 Oct 1943 [1944] Ch 13, CA

  CONTRACT — Illegality — Abrogation
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  CONTRACT — Illegality — Abrogation — Outbreak of war — Intercourse with, or benefit to, the enemy — Purchase of reichsmarks by German company from Swedish bank — Repayment of debt by British company by instalments in consideration of assignment by

• In Re Whitby; Public Trustee v Whitby

  04 Feb 1944 [1944] Ch 210, CA

  Subsequent citations: 2.
  WILL — Bequest — “Jewellery”
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  WILL — Bequest — “Jewellery” — Unmounted diamonds — Articles “now deposited for safe custody” — “Now” — Inclusion of articles deposited after date of disposition — Wills Act, 1837 (7 Wm. 4 & 1 Vict., c. 26), s. 24 — Administration of Estates Act, 1925 (15 Geo. 5, c. 23.), s. 55, sub-s. 1 (x.).

  2 Statutes considered
• Lyons (J) & Co Ltd v Attorney-General

  29 Mar 1944 [1944] Ch 281, Ch D

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 9.
  WAR — Emergency Legislation — War damage
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  WAR — Emergency Legislation — War damage — “Plant and machinery” — Restaurant — Electric lamps and fittings — War Damage Act, 1943 (6 & 7 Geo. 6, c. 21), s. 103, sub-s. 5 — Plant and Machinery (Valuation for Rating) Order, 1927 (St. R. & O., 1927, No. 480), sch. to cl. 1 (b), para (e) (ii.).

  1 Statute considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• In Re Rogers, Decd; Lloyd’s Bank Ltd v Lory

  21 Apr 1944 [1944] Ch 297, CA

  WILL — Legacy — Vested or contingent interest
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  WILL — Legacy — Vested or contingent interest — Gift to infant on attainting twenty-one — Direction to pay income to his mother for his “advancement and education” — Death of infant during infancy.