Beckett v Tower Assets Company

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Year1891
Date1891
CourtCourt of Appeal

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4 cases
  • Khoo Chooi Sim v The Radio & General Trading Company Ltd
    • Malaysia
    • Federal Court (Malaysia)
    • Invalid date
  • Commissioner of Customs and Excise v Randles Brothers & Hudson Ltd
    • South Africa
    • 20 May 1941
    ...ed., pp. 33-4). The Court must inquire into the real nature of the transaction and give it legal effect. See Beckett v Tower Assets Co. (1891, 1 Q.B. 638, per FRY, To ascertain the intention of the parties regard must be had to the form of the transaction, but more particularly to the subst......
  • K & D Motors v Wessels
    • South Africa
    • 9 November 1948
    ...Council (1920 AD at p. 547); Commissioner of Customs & Excise v Randles Bros. & Hudson Ltd. (1941 AD 369); Beckett & Tower Assets Co. (1891 (1), Q.B. 638). It was not enough for respondent and her brother to think that they had the intention to buy and sell respectively; the intention must ......
  • FERNANDO v. COORAY
    • Sri Lanka
    • 18 November 1957
    ...[' Peugh v. Davis (1877) 96 U. S. Supreme Court Reports 332-336, Bk 24 Lawyers' Edn, 775.], English [2 Beckett v. Tower Assets Company, (1891) 1 Q. B. 638. Trustee of G. Mellor v. Maas and another, (1903) 1 K. B. 226, 1905 A. C. 102. Samuel v. Salmon & Gluckstein Ltd. (1945) 2 All E. E. 620......