Results: 61

• In re Sanders’ Will Trusts

  24 Feb 1954 [1954] Ch 265; [1954] 2 WLR 487; [1954] 1 All ER 667, Ch D

  Subsequent considerations : 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 3.
  CHARITY — Relief of poverty — Working classes

  CHARITY — Cy-près doctrine — “General charitable intention”
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  CHARITY — Relief of poverty — Working classes — Gift “to provide dwellings for the working classes in the area of P.”

  CHARITY — Cy-près doctrine — “General charitable intention” — Express — Ineffective. “Working class.”

• Wallbridge v Dorset County Council

  13 Apr 1954 [1954] Ch 659, Ch D

  CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS — Foster-children — Meaning
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  CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS — Foster-children — Meaning — Residential school — Fees paid by parents or local authorities — Parental control not relinquished — Not “living apart” from parents — Not “foster-children” — “Nursing and maintenance” — “Nursing” not confined to sick nursing — Public Health Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5 & 1 Edw. 8, c. 49), s. 206 (1), (3).

  1 Statute considered

• Sharkey (Inspector of Taxes) v Wernher

  24 Jul 1953 [1953] Ch 782; [1953] 3 WLR 549, Ch D

  07 Jul 1954 [1954] Ch 713; [1954] 3 WLR 367, CA

  07 Nov 1955 [1956] AC 58; [1955] 3 WLR 671, HL

  Subsequent citations: 10.
  REVENUE — Income tax — Stock in trade
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  REVENUE — Income tax — Stock in trade — Disposal for owner's own use — Stud farm — Trade under Schedule D — Racing stables — Recreational and not ta cable — Transfer of horses from farm to stables — Value attributable in stud farm accounts — Income Tax Act, 1918 (8 & 9 Geo. 5, c. 40), Sch. D, Case I.

  1 Statute considered
• Minister of Health v General Committee Of The Royal Midland Counties Home For Incurables At Leamington Spa

  09 Dec 1953 [1954] 1 WLR 79, Ch D

  25 Mar 1954 [1954] Ch 530; [1954] 2 WLR 755, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 6.
  NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE — Hospital — Meaning

  NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE — “hospital.” “treatment.”
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  NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE — Hospital — Meaning — Home for incurables — No curative treatment provided — Whether home transferred to Ministry of Health — National Health Service Act, 1946 (9 & 10 Geo. 6, c. 81), ss. 6 (1), 79.

  NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE — “hospital.” “treatment.”

  1 Case considered

  1 Statute considered
• Bonsor v Musicians’ Union

  05 Mar 1954 [1954] Ch 479; [1954] 2 WLR 687, CA

  07 Nov 1955 [1956] AC 104; [1955] 3 WLR 788, HL

  Subsequent considerations : 3 positive; 4 neutral. Subsequent citations: 22.
  TRADE UNION — Whether legal entity — Action against union by member
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  TRADE UNION — Whether legal entity — Action against union by member — Expulsion of member — Rules of union — Expulsion ultra vires — Claim for damages — Nature of contract between trade union and members — Whether trade union a legal entity vis-à-vis members — Trade Union Act, 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 31).

  1 Statute considered
• Iveagh v Inland Revenue Comrs

  09 Feb 1954 [1954] 2 WLR 494, Ch D

  09 Feb 1954 [1954] Ch 364, Ch D

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 3.
  REVENUE — Estate duty — Surrender of life interest

  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Settlement — Proper law
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  REVENUE — Estate duty — Surrender of life interest — Personalty — Investments subsequently made — “Property” deemed to pass on death — Finance Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 30), s. 22 (1) (f) — Finance Act, 1940 (3 & 4 Geo. 6, c. 29), s. 43.

  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Settlement — Proper law — Executed in England — Parties domiciled in Ireland — English solicitors — Same system of law in both countries — No express power to invest in land in Ireland. Trust and Trustee. Trust fund — Conception as continuing entity — “Property taken.”

  2 Statutes considered

• In Re Old Silkstone Collieries Ltd

  02 Dec 1953 [1954] Ch 169, CA

  COMPANY — Reduction of Capital — Colliery company

  COMPANY — Shares — Preference. Coal
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  COMPANY — Reduction of Capital — Colliery company — Assets of company taken over by National Coal Board — Preference capital reduced on footing that right to claim adjustment of compensation unaffected — Resolution for repayment of preference stock in full — Validity — Whether reduction just and equitable — Terms of earlier company's circular — Companies Act, 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6, c. 38), ss. 66, 67 — Coal Industry Nationalization Act, 1946 (9 & 10 Geo. 6, c. 59), s. 25.

  COMPANY — Shares — Preference. Coal — Nationalization — Compensation.

  1 Statute considered

• In Re Mitchell, Decd; Hatton v Jones

  30 Apr 1954 [1954] Ch 525, Ch D

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  WILL — Construction — Intestacy, as on

  CROWN — Bona vacantia.
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  WILL — Construction — Intestacy, as on — Residue to pass to persons entitled as on intestacy of testator's widow — Widow illegitimate — Right of Crown — Bona vacantia — Nature of Crown's entitlement to estates of persons dying intestate — Administration of Estates Act, 1925 (15 Geo. 5, c. 23), s. 46 (1).

  CROWN — Bona vacantia.

  1 Statute considered

• In Re Wright; Blizard v Lockhart

  19 Feb 1954 [1954] 2 WLR 481, Ch D

  13 Apr 1954 [1954] Ch 347; [1954] 2 WLR 972, CA

  Subsequent citations: 2.
  ESTOPPEL — Per rem judicatam — Order for inquiry

  CHARITY — Practicability — Bequest
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  ESTOPPEL — Per rem judicatam — Order for inquiry — Nu final determination, of rights — Principle of res judicata by implication not applicable.

  CHARITY — Practicability — Bequest — Intervening tenancy for life — Date for determining practicability of bequest.

• In Re Brown, Decd; District Bank Ltd v Brown

  04 Nov 1953 [1954] Ch 39, Ch D

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  WILL — Condition subsequent — Devise subject to condition
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  WILL — Condition subsequent — Devise subject to condition — Restraint on alienation — Alienation confined to brothers — Whether valid — Applicability of principle to realty and personalty.