Banco de Portugal v Waddell
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 19 March 1880 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1880] UKHL J0319-1 |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Date | 19 March 1880 |
[1880] UKHL J0319-1
House of Lords
After hearing Counsel for the Appellants, as well on Tuesday last as this day, upon the Petition and Appeal of the Banco de Portugal, of Oporto, in the Kingdom of Portugal, Bankers, praying, That the matter of the Order set forth in the Schedule thereto, namely, an Order of Her Majesty's Court of Appeal sitting in Bankruptcy, of the 4th of April 1879, might be reviewed before Her Majesty the Queen in Her Court of Parliament, and that the said Order might be reversed, varied, or altered, or that the Petitioners might have such other relief in the premises as to Her Majesty the Queen in Her Court of Parliament might seem meet; as also upon the printed Case of James Waddell (the Trustee under the Liquidation of Richard Hooper and Sons) lodged in answer to the said Appeal; Counsel appearing for the Respondent but not being called on; and due consideration had of what was offered for the Appellants:
It is Ordered and Adjudged, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in the Court of Parliament of Her Majesty the Queen assembled, That the said Order of Her Majesty's Court of Appeal sitting in Bankruptcy, of the 4th of April 1879, complained of in the said Appeal, be, and the same is hereby Affirmed, and that the said Petition and Appeal be, and the same is hereby dismissed this House: And it is further Ordered, That the Appellants do...
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