Results: 111

• In re Gulbenkian’s Settlements (No 2)

  22 May 1969 [1970] Ch 408; [1969] 3 WLR 450; [1969] 2 All ER 1173, Ch D

  Subsequent considerations : 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 6.
  TRUSTS — Discretion of trustees — Time for exercise

  TRUSTS — Discretionary — Power of selection
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  TRUSTS — Discretion of trustees — Time for exercise — Whether exercisable retrospectively — Circumstances causing postponement

  TRUSTS — Discretionary — Power of selection — Release by object by deed and for valuable consideration — Effect

  5 Case(s) considered

• In re Pennant’s Will Trusts

  27 Mar 1969 [1970] Ch 75; [1969] 3 WLR 63; [1969] 2 All ER 862, Ch D

  Subsequent citations: 2.
  ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES — Vesting — Legal estate

  SETTLED LAND — Tenant for life — Powers
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  ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES — Vesting — Legal estate — Testamentary settlement — Conveyance for value of part of settled land to tenant for life — Conveyance by executors as personal representatives — Whether legal estate passed freed and discharged from trusts of settlement — Whether conveyance deemed to be made with intention of operating statutory powers — Whether tenant for life to be a conveying party as well as party to whom conveyed — Settled Land Act, 1925, ss 6, 30 (3), 68 (2)

  SETTLED LAND — Tenant for life — Powers — Testamentary settlement — Conveyance for value of part of the settled land to tenant for life — Conveyance by all executors including purchasing tenant for life as personal representatives — Whether legal estate passed freed and discharged from trusts of the settlement — Whether conveyance to be treated as made with intention of operating trustees' statutory powers — Whether tenant for life should be a conveying party as well as party to whom conveyed — Settled Land Act, 1925, ss 6, 30 (3), 68 (2)

  1 Case considered

  1 Statute considered

• Central Electricity Generating Board v Dunning

  23 Jan 1970 [1970] Ch 643; [1970] 2 WLR 668; [1970] 1 All ER 897, Ch D

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  ELECTRICITY — Lines, erection of — Minister's consent to place transmission lines above ground
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  ELECTRICITY — Lines, erection of — Minister's consent to place transmission lines above ground — Pasture and moorland used and cleared for gliding — Whether excepted as “pleasure ground” — Electricity (Supply) Act, 1919, s 22 (1)

  2 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered

• Krishnan v Sutton London Borough Council

  25 Jul 1969 [1970] Ch 181; [1969] 3 WLR 683; [1969] 3 All ER 1367; 67 LGR 627, CA

  Subsequent citations: 2.
  CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS — Care of — Child received into care by local authority
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  CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS — Care of — Child received into care by local authority — Child placed with foster parents — Girl of 14 — Father's request for return of child to his care granted by local authority — Child's refusal to return — Whether local authority under absolute duty to return child to father's care — Whether power in court to order local authority to return child — Children Act, 1948, s 1 (3)

  1 Case considered

  1 Statute considered
• Lowe v Hope

  30 Jul 1969 [1970] Ch 94; [1969] 3 WLR 582; [1969] 3 All ER 605, Ch D

  Subsequent considerations : 2 neutral; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 7.
  CONTRACT — Rescission — Deposit

  VENDOR AND PURCHASER — Completion — Failure by purchaser
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  CONTRACT — Rescission — Deposit — Contract for sale of land — Purchaser's failure to complete — Vendor's right to deposit if contract rescinded — Distinction between part paid and unpaid balance

  VENDOR AND PURCHASER — Completion — Failure by purchaser — Vendor's rights — Only part of deposit paid — Election to abandon specific performance action and claim rescission — Whether vendor entitled to claim rescission and payment of deposit — Distinction between part paid and unpaid balance

  1 Case considered
• Griffiths v Young

  24 Jun 1970 [1970] Ch 675; [1970] 3 WLR 246; [1970] 3 All ER 601, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 2 neutral. Subsequent citations: 8.
  VENDOR AND PURCHASER — Memorandum in writing — Two documents
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  VENDOR AND PURCHASER — Memorandum in writing — Two documents — Agreement by defendant to sell land to plaintiff — Letter by plaintiff's solicitor recording terms “subject to contract” — Plaintiff's solicitor's unconditional offer to purchase — Letter of acceptance by defendant's solicitor referring to other letter — Whether both letters constituted sufficient memorandum of agreement for sale to render contract enforceable — Whether “subject to contract” term of contract or mere suspensive condition — Whether oral evidence admissible to show condition waived — Law of Property Act, 1925, s 40 (1)

  2 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered

• In re Boxco Ltd

  16 Mar 1970 [1970] Ch 442; [1970] 2 WLR 959; [1970] 2 All ER 183, Ch D

  COMPANY — Register — Restoration to register
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  COMPANY — Register — Restoration to register — Company's petition — Purported legal charge — Retrospective effect — Companies Act, 1948, ss 98, 353 (6)

  1 Case considered

  1 Statute considered

• Lawson v Rolfe

  11 Dec 1969 [1970] Ch 612; [1970] 2 WLR 602; [1970] 1 All ER 761; 46 TC 199, Ch D

  REVENUE — Income tax — Schedule D, Case V
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  REVENUE — Income tax — Schedule D, Case V — Stock dividends distributed by United States companies to trustee of Californian trust — Nature of stock dividends in Californian law — “Pennsylvania Rule” — Whether stock dividends income in hands of trustee — Whether income in taxpayer's hands — Income Tax Act, 1952, ss 122,123

  2 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered

• In re A (Infants)

  07 May 1970 [1970] Ch 665; [1970] 3 WLR 142; [1970] 3 All ER 184, CA

  Subsequent citations: 2.
  INFANT — Ward of court — Jurisdiction
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  INFANT — Ward of court — Jurisdiction — Forum conveniens — English parents resident in Jersey — Infants' short visit to England by consent of parents — Father's refusal to return infants to Jersey — Whether a kidnapping case — Whether English court to decide merits of case or order return of infants to Jersey

  4 Case(s) considered

• In re Rodwell, decd

  10 Oct 1969 [1970] Ch 726; [1969] 3 WLR 1115; [1969] 3 All ER 1363, Ch D

  FAMILY PROVISION — Child — Daughter married
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  FAMILY PROVISION — Child — Daughter married — Marriage declared null and void during testator's lifetime — Whether daughter “daughter who has not been married” — Inheritance (Family Provision) Act, 1938, s 1 (1) (b) (as amended by Intestates' Estates Act, 1952, Sch 3)

  1 Case considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered