Bennett v Bennet

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1878
Year1878
CourtChancery Division
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  • Calverley v Green
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • Invalid date
  • Lau Siew Kim v Yeo Guan Chye Terence and Another
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 30 November 2007
    ...and a person standing in loco parentis. Jessel MR explained the rationale for this extension of the presumption in Bennet v Bennet (1879) 10 Ch D 474 (“Bennet”) at 477 as [A]s regards a child, a person not the father of the child may put himself in the position of one in loco parentis to th......
  • Catherine Victoria Simmons v Madge Olivene Wright Executor Estate Gwendolyn Miranda Simmons et Al
    • Jamaica
    • Supreme Court (Jamaica)
    • 27 May 2002
    ...event, as between mother and daughter no presumption of advancement arises , and it is useful to refer to the remarks of Jessel M.R. in Bennett v Bennett (1879) 10 Chd 474. (Emphasis mine) 24 The remarks to which Carberry JA. referred are noted as follows: 'But in our law there is no- moral......
  • Miles et Al v McKay et Al
    • Bahamas
    • Supreme Court (Bahamas)
    • 9 December 1999
    ... ... in Bennet v. Bennet (1879) 10 Ch. D. 474 when he said: “The doctrine of equity as regards presumption of gifts is this, that where one ... ...
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  • RESULTING TRUSTS IN SINGAPORE
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2011, December 2011
    • 1 December 2011
    ...Gim Siah v Low Geok Khim [2007] 1 SLR(R) 795 at [44]. 64 Low Gim Siah v Low Geok Khim [2007] 1 SLR(R) 795 at [44]. 65 Bennet v Bennet (1879) 10 Ch D 474 at 476. 66 Lau Siew Kim v Yeo Guan Chye Terence [2007] 2 SLR(R) 108 at [77]. 67 Tsun Hang Tey, “Singapore‘s Muddled Presumption of Advance......

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