Attorney General v Shadwell

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date1910
Date1910
Year1910
CourtChancery Division
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9 cases
  • Fraser and Another v Canterbury Diocesan Board of Finance
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 24 November 2000
    ...a school "provided" and maintained by the school board under the 1870 Act. The approach laid down in the decisions in A-G v. Shadwell [1910]1 Ch 92 and Habermehl v. A-G (supra) was followed. The trustees' fee simple determined in 1874, the land reverted and the claim to the reverter became......
  • (1) Michael Rittson-Thomas v Oxfordshire County Council
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 9 March 2018
    ...charitable trust” it “would not have the drastic consequence of causing a reverter”. 26 At [16]–[18], Lord Hoffmann explained that Attorney General v Shadwell [1910] 1 Ch 92 is authority for the proposition that “if the grantor has chosen one of the three statutory purposes and the land cea......
  • Bath and Wells Diocesan Board of Finance and Another v Jenkinson and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 26 February 2002
    ...determinable on the land ceasing to be used for such of the purposes mentioned in the Act as were specified in the conveyance: see Attorney-General v Shadwell [1910] 1 Ch. 92. Before 1926 a determinable fee simple was capable of existing as an estate at law and it invariably existed as suc......
  • Fraser v Canterbury Diocesan Board of Finance (No 2)
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 27 October 2005
    ...restrictions would not have the drastic consequence of causing a reverter. 16 The matter is not however free from authority. In Attorney General v Shadwell [1910] 1 Ch 92 the terms of the grant were for practical purposes identical with those in this case, save that the parish was Northolt......
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