Douglas As Assignees of Douglas Douglas v Montgomerie, Paterson, and Others,...
References: [1714] UKHL Robertson_99, (1714) Robertson 99 Links: Bailii Ratio: Fiar – An estate being settled by an heiress to her husband and herself in conjunct fee and life-rent and the heirs to be...
View ArticleFalconer v Dame Elizabeth Falconer, Ramsay, Archer, Minister of The Gospel At...
References: [1721] UKHL Robertson_377 Links: Bailii Ratio: Presumption. – Two mortifications for educating children at a parish school, are found in the grantor’s repositories after his death; the one...
View ArticleCrawford, Commonly An Infant, By John Crawford, etc v Viscount of Garnock,...
References: [1735] UKHL 1_Paton_167, (1735) 1 Paton 167 Links: Bailii Ratio: Tailzie – Title to pursue – An heir under an entail, which was not properly recorded, having possessed without inserting in...
View ArticleWilliam Nisbet of Dirleton v Janet, Jane, and Willielmina Nisbetd Erski: HL 7...
References: [1727] UKHL Robertson_594, (1727) Robertson 594 Links: Bailii Ratio: Legitim – Husband and Wife – Provisions to Heirs and Children – Bonds Portions to children in a contract of marriage if...
View ArticleAB, Re Notification of Statutory Will Application: CoP 11 Sep 2013
References: [2013] EWCOP B39 Links: Bailii Coram: District Judge E Batten Ratio: Application for execution of a statutory will to be authorised by the court pursuant to section 18(1)(i) of the Mental...
View ArticleAnstey v Mundle: ChD 2016
References: [2016] EWHC 1073 (Ch) Ratio: When faced with a dispute as to the disposal of a deceased’s body, the role of the court is not to give directions for the disposal of the body but to resolve...
View ArticleDi Placito v Slater and others: CA 19 Dec 2003
References: [2003] EWCA Civ 1863, Times 29-Jan-2004, [2004] 1 WLR 1605 Links: Bailii Coram: Lord Justice Laws Lord Justice Potter Lady Justice Arden Ratio: The parties had earlier compromised their...
View ArticleEdward Seymor’s Case: 1572
References: [1572] EngR 126, (1572-1616) 10 Co Rep 95, (1572) 77 ER 1070 Links: Commonlii Ratio: Jurisdiction: England and Wales Last Update: 30-Dec-16 Ref: 432092 The post Edward Seymor’s Case: 1572...
View ArticleCartwright’s Case: 1653
References: [1653] EngR 418, (1653) Godb 246, (1653) 78 ER 143 (C) Links: Commonlii Ratio: Jurisdiction: England and Wales Last Update: 06-Jan-17 Ref: 412725 The post Cartwright’s Case: 1653 appeared...
View ArticleButler and Al’ Contra Coote and Al: 26 Oct 1670
References: [1670] EngR 54, (1670) 3 Rep Ch 54, (1670) 21 ER 726 (B) Links: Commonlii Ratio: Jurisdiction: England and Wales Last Update: 08-Jan-17 Ref: 406510 The post Butler and Al’ Contra Coote and...
View Article–––––– v Harvery Executrix of Sir Job Harvery: 1803
References: [1803] EngR 388, (1803) T Raym 153, (1803) 83 ER 82 (A) Links: Commonlii Ratio: In debt. The defendant pleaded a joint judgment against the testator, and Erasmus Harvey who is now alive,...
View ArticleWeir v Crum-Brown: HL 6 Feb 1908
References: [1908] AC 162, [1908] UKHL 2, 1908 SC (HL) 3, (1908) 15 SLT 857 Links: Bailii Coram: Lord Loreburn LC, Lord Macnaghten Ratio: If a bequest in a will to a class of persons is capable of...
View ArticleHartshorne v Gardner: ChD 14 Mar 2008
References: [2008] EWHC B3 (Ch) Links: Bailii Coram: Sonia Proudman QC Ratio: The deceased died in a motor accident, aged 44. The parties, his mother and father, disputed control over his remains....
View ArticleThorner v Major and others: HL 25 Mar 2009
References: [2009] UKHL 18, [2009] 13 EG 142, [2009] WTLR 71, [2009] Fam Law 583, [2009] 2 FLR 405, [2009] 1 WLR 776 Links: Bailii, Times, HL Coram: Lord Hoffmann, Lord Scott of Foscote, Lord Rodger of...
View ArticleWilliams v Williams: 1882
References: [1882] 20 ChD 659 Coram: Kay J Ratio: By codicil to his will the deceased directed that his executors should give his body to Miss Williams; and by letter he requested her to cremate his...
View ArticleRegina v Gwynedd County Council ex parte B and Another: 1992
References: [1992] 3 All ER 317 Ratio: The ambit of the 1980 act does not extend to regulating events arising aftera child’s death. Statutes: Child Care Act 1980 Jurisdiction: England and Wales This...
View ArticleGoldsmid, and Others v Goldsmid, Brown, Ebason, and Others: 12 Dec 1823
References: [1823] EngR 823, (1823) Turn & R 445, (1823) 37 ER 1172 Links: Commonlii Ratio: Jurisdiction: England and Wales Last Update: 09-Jan-17 Ref: 328863 The post Goldsmid, and Others v...
View ArticleIbuna and Another v Arroyo and Another: ChD 2 Mar 2012
References: [2012] EWHC 428 (Ch) Links: Bailii Coram: Peter Smith J Ratio: The action concerns the competing claims as to the right to take possession of the body of Ignacio Arroyo (‘Congressman...
View ArticleRobert James Walker v Geo H Medlicott and Son (a Firm): CA 19 Nov 1998
References: Times 25-Nov-1998, [1998] EWCA Civ 1806, [1999] 1 All ER Links: Bailii Coram: Simon Brown LJ, Mummery LJ, Sir Christopher Slade Ratio: The claimant said that the defendant solicitor had...
View ArticleSlattery and Others v Jagger and Others: ChD 10 Nov 2015
References: [2015] EWHC 3976 (Ch) Links: Bailii Coram: Hodge QC HHJ Ratio: The court read the words ‘to my wife’ into a specific devise of a property from which they had accidentally been omitted by a...
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