Bennett v Bennett

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CourtCourt of Appeal
Judgment Date1952
Year1952
Date1952

Get this document and AI-powered insights with a free trial of vLex and Vincent AI

Get Started for Free

Start Your Free Trial of vLex and Vincent AI, Your Precision-Engineered Legal Assistant

  • Access comprehensive legal content with no limitations across vLex's unparalleled global legal database

  • Build stronger arguments with verified citations and CERT citator that tracks case history and precedential strength

  • Transform your legal research from hours to minutes with Vincent AI's intelligent search and analysis capabilities

  • Elevate your practice by focusing your expertise where it matters most while Vincent handles the heavy lifting

vLex

Start Your Free Trial of vLex and Vincent AI, Your Precision-Engineered Legal Assistant

  • Access comprehensive legal content with no limitations across vLex's unparalleled global legal database

  • Build stronger arguments with verified citations and CERT citator that tracks case history and precedential strength

  • Transform your legal research from hours to minutes with Vincent AI's intelligent search and analysis capabilities

  • Elevate your practice by focusing your expertise where it matters most while Vincent handles the heavy lifting

vLex

Start Your Free Trial of vLex and Vincent AI, Your Precision-Engineered Legal Assistant

  • Access comprehensive legal content with no limitations across vLex's unparalleled global legal database

  • Build stronger arguments with verified citations and CERT citator that tracks case history and precedential strength

  • Transform your legal research from hours to minutes with Vincent AI's intelligent search and analysis capabilities

  • Elevate your practice by focusing your expertise where it matters most while Vincent handles the heavy lifting

vLex

Start Your Free Trial of vLex and Vincent AI, Your Precision-Engineered Legal Assistant

  • Access comprehensive legal content with no limitations across vLex's unparalleled global legal database

  • Build stronger arguments with verified citations and CERT citator that tracks case history and precedential strength

  • Transform your legal research from hours to minutes with Vincent AI's intelligent search and analysis capabilities

  • Elevate your practice by focusing your expertise where it matters most while Vincent handles the heavy lifting

vLex

Start Your Free Trial of vLex and Vincent AI, Your Precision-Engineered Legal Assistant

  • Access comprehensive legal content with no limitations across vLex's unparalleled global legal database

  • Build stronger arguments with verified citations and CERT citator that tracks case history and precedential strength

  • Transform your legal research from hours to minutes with Vincent AI's intelligent search and analysis capabilities

  • Elevate your practice by focusing your expertise where it matters most while Vincent handles the heavy lifting

vLex

Start Your Free Trial of vLex and Vincent AI, Your Precision-Engineered Legal Assistant

  • Access comprehensive legal content with no limitations across vLex's unparalleled global legal database

  • Build stronger arguments with verified citations and CERT citator that tracks case history and precedential strength

  • Transform your legal research from hours to minutes with Vincent AI's intelligent search and analysis capabilities

  • Elevate your practice by focusing your expertise where it matters most while Vincent handles the heavy lifting

vLex
62 cases
  • Ling Pooi Ming; Ong Ah Mai
    • Malaysia
    • High Court (Malaysia)
    • 1 January 1984
  • L v L
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal
    • 23 October 1961
    ...that the jurisdiction of the court to award maintenance to a wife cannot be ousted by any private agreement between the parties; see Bennett v. Bennett (1952 volume 1 King's Bench Division, page 249) following Hyman v. Hyman. Such an agreement is unenforceable against the wife as being cont......
  • Sutton v Sutton
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • Invalid date
  • Marshall v N M Financial Management Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 13 March 1997
    ...consideration", or "the whole or substantially the whole consideration" for the promise: for the last formulation see Bennett v Bennett [1952] 1 KB 249 at p. 261 per Denning LJ. 25 I doubt that there is any real difference between these different formulations, so long as it is recognised (i......
  • Get Started for Free
2 books & journal articles
  • Illegality
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books The Law of Contracts. Third Edition Vitiating Factors
    • 4 August 2020
    ...the Criminal 310 Amoco Australia Pty v Rocca Bros Motor Engineering Co , [1975] AC 561 (PC). 311 See, for example, Bennett v Bennett , [1952] 1 KB 249 (CA) (separation agreement in which the consideration f‌lowing from the wife was an unenforceable undertaking not to invoke the jurisdiction......
  • Statute-barred cohabitant claimants in Barbados
    • Barbados
    • Caribbean Law Review No. 2-1, June 1992
    • 1 June 1992
    ...the limitation period; 18 and where, as in 12 Simmonds v. Simmonds [1955] 2 All E.R. 481 at 492. 13 Ibid. See also Bennett v. Bennett [1952] 1 K.B. 249, where the delay arose from the fact that the registrar erroneously struck out the wife's application for maintenance for herself and the s......