Results: 75

• In Re Wharfedale Brewery Co Ltd

  23 Jul 1952 [1952] Ch 913, Ch D

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  COMPANY — Winding up — Surplus Assets
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  COMPANY — Winding up — Surplus Assets — Arrears of preferential dividend — Assets now distributable between preference and ordinary shareholders.
• Stromdale & Ball Ltd v Burden

  29 Nov 1951 [1952] Ch 223, Ch D

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive. Subsequent citations: 10.
  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Licence to tenant to assign — Assignees not parties to licence
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  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Licence to tenant to assign — Assignees not parties to licence — Option to assignees to purchase in licence — Right of assignees to enforce option — Specific performance — Law of Property Act, 1925 (15 Geo. 5, c. 20), s. 56 (1).

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• In Re Lyons; Barclays Bank Ltd v Lyons

  11 Jul 1951 [1951] Ch 1093, Ch D

  03 Dec 1951 [1952] Ch 129, CA

  WILL — Annuity payable by trustees “free of income tax” — Recovery by annuitant of tax paid in respect of annuity by reason of business losses
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  WILL — Annuity payable by trustees “free of income tax” — Recovery by annuitant of tax paid in respect of annuity by reason of business losses — Annuitant's liability to account to trustees — Income Tax Act, 1918 (8 & 9 Geo. 5, c. 40), s. 34.

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• Whitehill v Bradford

  13 Oct 1951 [1952] Ch 236; [1952] 1 All ER 115, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 7.
  RESTRAINT OF TRADE — Doctor — Partnership agreement
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  RESTRAINT OF TRADE — Doctor — Partnership agreement — Retiring partner not to practise for twenty-one years within radius of ten miles from parish church — Covenant not wider than necessary for protection of partnership — Enforceability — National Health Service (Amendment) Act, 1949 (12, 13 & 14 Geo. 6, c. 93), s. 1.

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• Jennings’ Trustee v King

  30 Jul 1952 [1952] Ch 899, Ch D

  Subsequent citations: 2.
  SALE OF LAND — Act of bankruptcy by purchaser before completion — Vendor not entitled to rescind

  BANKRUPTCY — Contract for sale of land — Act of bankruptcy by purchaser before completion
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  SALE OF LAND — Act of bankruptcy by purchaser before completion — Vendor not entitled to rescind — Trustee's rights.

  BANKRUPTCY — Contract for sale of land — Act of bankruptcy by purchaser before completion — Trustee's rights under contract — Vendor not entitled to rescind.

• In Re Banque Industrielle De Moscou

  29 Jul 1952 [1952] Ch 919, Ch D

  COMPANY — Winding up — Russian bank with London branch
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  COMPANY — Winding up — Russian bank with London branch — Dissolution under Russian law — Winding-up order — Order expressed to be without prejudice to claim by Crown to assets as bona vacantia — Crown entitled only to surplus — Form of order.
• Copeland v Greenhalf

  07 Mar 1952 [1952] Ch 488, Ch D

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral; 2 negative. Subsequent citations: 8.
  EASEMENT — Claim of prescriptive right to store on neighbour's land vehicles awaiting and undergoing repair and vehicles awaiting collection after repair — Whether such right an easement in law.
  UPJOHN J., after stating the facts, continued:- The claim of the defendant depends on prescription or, alternatively, on a lost grant. Mr. Boraston, for the defendant, did not press his claim on the lost grant, because he did not consider that it afforded him any extra support beyond the claim under the Prescription Act. I shall, therefore, deal with this as a claim under the Prescription Act, 1832, alone. Mr. Boraston said that a custom to deposit objects on the land of another, or a practice of depositing objects on the land of another, could form the subject-matter of a
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  EASEMENT — Claim of prescriptive right to store on neighbour's land vehicles awaiting and undergoing repair and vehicles awaiting collection after repair — Whether such right an easement in law.
• Shaw’s Will Trusts, In re

  03 Dec 1951 [1952] Ch 163, Ch D

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 5.
  CHARITY — Bequests to bring “masterpieces of fine art within the reach of the people of Ireland of all classes” and for the teaching “of self control, elocution, oratory, deportment, the arts of personal contact, of social intercourse, and the oth — Educational purposes
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  CHARITY — Bequests to bring “masterpieces of fine art within the reach of the people of Ireland of all classes” and for the teaching “of self control, elocution, oratory, deportment, the arts of personal contact, of social intercourse, and the oth — Educational purposes — Evidence — Valid charitable trusts.

• In Re Pomfret’s Settlement; Guest v Pomfret

  01 Nov 1951 [1952] Ch 48, Ch D

  SETTLEMENT — Tenant for Life and Remainderman — House requisitioned during war
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  SETTLEMENT — Tenant for Life and Remainderman — House requisitioned during war — Damage during requisition — Compensation income not capital — Settled Land Act, 1925 (15 Geo. 5, c. 18), s. 81 — Compensation (Defence) Act, 1939 (2 & 3 Geo. 6, c. 75), s. 2 (1) (b).

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• Art Reproduction Co Ltd, In re

  05 Nov 1951 [1952] Ch 89, Ch D

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 12.
  COMPANY — Voluntary Winding Up — Statute-barred debts
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  COMPANY — Voluntary Winding Up — Statute-barred debts — No power to discharge unless contributories consent — Companies Act, 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6, c. 38), ss. 257 (1); 302, 316, 317.

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