References: (1930) 46 TLR 411
Coram: Wright J
Ratio: In relation to wills and settlements the legislature had used the word ‘family’ ‘to introduce a flexible and wide term’ so that brothers and sisters were to be treated as members of the family. The word was a ‘popular, loose and flexible expression’, and not a technical term.
Jurisdiction: England and Wales
This case is cited by:
- Approved – Brock v Wollams CA ([1949] 2 KB 388)
A child had been adopted in fact and lived with the tenant for many years, but had not been formally adopted under the Act claimed to inherit the tenancy on his death.
Held: He was to be considered to be a member of the former tenant’s family . . - Cited – Fitzpatrick v Sterling Housing Association Ltd HL (Times 02-Nov-99, Gazette 10-Nov-99, House of Lords, Bailii, [1999] 3 WLR 1113, [2001] 1 AC 27, [1999] UKHL 42, [1999] 4 All ER 705)
The claimant had lived with the original tenant in a stable and long standing homosexual relationship at the deceased’s flat. After the tenant’s death he sought a statutory tenancy as a spouse of the deceased. The Act had been extended to include as . .
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