Results: 43

• In Re North Settled Estates; Public Trustee v Graham

  17 May 1945 [1946] Ch 13, Ch D

  SETTLEMENT — Portions — Hotchpot
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  SETTLEMENT — Portions — Hotchpot — Mode of valuation — Retrospective actuarial calculations of values.

• In Re F De Jong & Co Limited

  14 Mar 1946 [1946] Ch 211, CA

  COMPANY — Winding up — Preference dividends in arrears
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  COMPANY — Winding up — Preference dividends in arrears — Distribution of assets after payment of debts and repayment of preference capital.

• In Re Roberts, Deceased; Public Trustee v Roberts

  13 Jul 1945 [1946] Ch 1, Ch D

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  INSURANCE — Insurance (life) — Policy taken out by father on life of son
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  INSURANCE — Insurance (life) — Policy taken out by father on life of son — Declaration of trust in policy for son — Premiums paid by father during his life — Will of father directing policy moneys to be paid to son's children — Claim of executors to lien for premiums paid — Presumption of advancement.
• Pointer, In re

  18 Jul 1946 [1946] Ch 324, Ch D

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive.
  FAMILY PROVISION — Order — Will dated before September 3, 1939
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  FAMILY PROVISION — Order — Will dated before September 3, 1939 — Testator's death after that date — Whether provision affected by Finance Act, 1941 (4 & 5 Geo. 6, c. 30), s. 25, sub-s. 1 — Inheritance (Family Provision) Act, 1938 (1 & 2 Geo. 6, c. 45), s. 3, sub-s. 1.

  2 Statutes considered

• In Re Chatterton’s Settlement Fox v Powell

  11 Apr 1946 [1946] Ch 284, Ch D

  SETTLEMENT — Power of appointment to children — Exercise of power by deed, subject to life interest
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  SETTLEMENT — Power of appointment to children — Exercise of power by deed, subject to life interest — Power of revocation — Release and discharge of power — Implied revocation of previous appointment — Fund to pass in default of appointment.

• In Re Naamlooze Vennootschap Handelmaatschappij Wokar

  19 Nov 1945 [1946] Ch 98, Ch D

  COMPANY — Winding-up — Foreign company
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  COMPANY — Winding-up — Foreign company — Registered office abroad — Place of business in England — Voluntary liquidation abroad — Petition to wind up in England — Company not on register of foreign companies — Place of business in England no longer occupied by company — Service of petition by leaving at “last known place of business in England” — Companies Act, 1929 (19 & 20 Geo. 5, c. 23), s. 338 — Companies (Winding-up) Rules, 1929 (St. R. & O. 1929, No. 618, L/16), r. 28.

  1 Statute considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• Foster Wheeler Limited v E Green & Son Ltd

  04 Jul 1945 [1946] Ch 24, Ch D

  19 Nov 1945 [1946] Ch 101, CA

  PATENT — Agreement by patentee for exclusive sale of patented article to third party — Authority from Admiralty to patentee to “make, use, “exercise or vend” patented invention for service of the Crown
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  PATENT — Agreement by patentee for exclusive sale of patented article to third party — Authority from Admiralty to patentee to “make, use, “exercise or vend” patented invention for service of the Crown — Effect on agreement for exclusive sale — Patents and Designs Act, 1907 (7 Edw. 7, c. 29), s. 29, as amended by Patents and Designs Act, 1942 (5 & 6 Geo. 6, c. 6), s. 2.

  2 Statutes considered

• In Re Crawshay Deceased; Hore-Ruthven v Public Trustee

  09 Jul 1946 [1946] Ch 327, Ch D

  WILL — Legacy settled on daughter and her children — Gift over on death without leaving children to attain twenty-one
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  WILL — Legacy settled on daughter and her children — Gift over on death without leaving children to attain twenty-one — Codicil — Exclusion of any children of daughter by a proposed marriage from share in legacy — Marriage of daughter — Death of daughter, leaving children who attained twenty-one — Whether gift over effective.
• Trussed Steel Concrete Co Ltd v Green

  07 Dec 1945 [1946] Ch 115, Ch D

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 3.
  WAR — Emergency Legislation — Master and servant
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  WAR — Emergency Legislation — Master and servant — Company — Managing director — Dismissal — “Scheduled undertaking” — “Persons employed by the undertaking” — “At and from” addresses stated in schedule — Permission o

  2 Statutory Instruments considered
• Pringle, In re

  11 Dec 1945 [1946] Ch 124, Ch D

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive.
  ADMINISTRATION — Survivorship — Simultaneous death
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  ADMINISTRATION — Survivorship — Simultaneous death — Air raid — Two persons killed by same bomb — Meaning of “simultaneous.”