Property Rights in UK Law

  • Pettitt v Pettitt
    • House of Lords
    • 23 April 1969
    ...... by virtue of the provisions of section 17 of the Married Women's Property Act 1882. That is a long and complicated section: the relevant part is as ... confer on the Court an unfettered discretion to override existing rights in the property and to dispose of it in whatever manner the judge may ......
  • Morris-Garner and another v One Step (Support) Ltd
    • Supreme Court
    • 18 April 2018
    ...... breaches of contract, and those involving the invasion of a property" right. . . 3 This judgment will abjure the use of the term \xE2"... damage’) are readily awarded at common law for the invasion of rights to tangible moveable or immoveable property (by detinue, conversion or ......
  • Tinsley v Milligan
    • House of Lords
    • 24 June 1993
    ...... whether the claim of the respondent to an interest in the property in question is defeated by reason of frauds practised on the Department of ... an illegal contract or other transaction and the enforcement of rights already acquired under the completed provisions of such a contract or ......
  • OBG Ltd and another v Allan and Others
    • House of Lords
    • 02 May 2007
    ...... Properties Ltd v Young [2005] IRLR 964 two employees of a property company, in breach of their contracts, diverted a development opportunity ... to cause a breach of contract or interfere with contractual rights. Under Lumley v Gye , on the other hand, an intention to cause a breach ......
  • Westdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale v Islington London Borough Council
    • House of Lords
    • 07 June 1996
    ......(1) voluntary payments by A to B. or for the purchase of property in the name of B or in his and A's joint names, where there is no ...The maxim must be taken as referring to rights which are suitable for judicial enforcement, but were not enforced at ......
  • Nokes v Doncaster Amalgamated Collieries
    • House of Lords
    • 20 August 1940
    ...... Section 154 of the Companies Act, 1929, transferring all the property and liabilities of the transferor company to the transferee company, is ... 154, which transferred to the respondent company all the property, rights, powers, liabilities and duties of a number of colliery companies, ......
  • Attorney-General v Blake (pet. all.)
    • House of Lords
    • 27 July 2000
    ...... . 15 Interference with rights of property . 16 So I turn to established, basic ......
  • Stack v Dowden
    • House of Lords
    • 25 April 2007
    ...... privilege of reading in draft indicates, this case is about the property rights of a cohabiting couple in a house which they occupied together as ......
  • Belhaj and another v Straw and Others; Rahmatullah v Ministry of Defence and another (No 2)
    • Supreme Court
    • 17 January 2017
    ...... these concepts with article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights . The meticulous but differing analyses of the Court of Appeal (Lord Dyson ... and treated as valid, so far as it affects movable or immovable property within the foreign state's jurisdiction: para 35. b) The ......
  • Foskett v McKeown
    • House of Lords
    • 24 May 2000
    ......by determining who enjoys the ownership of the property in which the loss or the unexpected benefit is reflected. ..., go further so as to claim that the purchasers are entitled to no rights in the policy moneys. . 9 As to the ......
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