Billing v Pill

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1953
CourtDivisional Court
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29 cases
  • IB Builders Sdn Bhd v Kheng Bee Company Sdn Bhd and another appeal
    • Malaysia
    • Court of Appeal (Malaysia)
    • Invalid date
  • Savoye and Savoye Ltd v Spicers Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Technology and Construction Court)
    • 15 December 2014
    ...as accessory to the house. It does not include things which were made part of the house itself in the course of its construction.' Yet in Billing v Pill… [1954] 1 QB 70 at 75 Lord Goddard CJ said: 'What is a fixture? First, the commonest fixture is a house. The house is built into the land......
  • Decision Nº LRX 127 2013. Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber), 16-02-2015
    • United Kingdom
    • Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber)
    • 16 February 2015
    ...Steel Ltd [2014] EWCA Civ 100 Peel Land and Property (Ports No.3) Ltd v TS Sheerness Steel Ltd [2013] EWHC 1658 (Ch) Billing v. Pill [1954] 1 Q.B. 70 Stock v Frank Jones (Tipton) Ltd [1978] 1 W.L.R. 231 Cheshire County Council v Wooodward [1962] 1 All ER 517 Smith v Customs and Excise Commi......
  • Elitestone Ltd v Morris and Another
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 1 May 1997
    ...to the house. It does not include things which were made part of the house itself in the course of its construction." 13 Yet in Billing v. Pill [1954] 1 Q.B. 70, 75 Lord Goddard C.J. said: "What is a fixture? The commonest fixture is a house which is built into the land, so that in law it i......
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2 books & journal articles
  • Taking possession: the defining element of theft?
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 32 No. 3, December 2008
    • 1 December 2008
    ...are NSW, Queensland and Tasmania. (15) The offence does not apply to land or things attached to land: see, eg, Billing v Pill [1954] 1 QB 70, 74-5 (Lord Goddard CJ). It also does not apply to intangible forms of property such as debts: see, eg, Croton v The Queen (1967) 117 CLR 326, 331 (Ba......
  • Recent Judicial Decisions
    • United Kingdom
    • Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles No. 27-1, January 1954
    • 1 January 1954
    ...stolen by the personwho severs the same from the realty, unless after severance he hasabandoned possession thereof". In Billing v. Pill (1953,3W.L.R.758)the HighCourtwas called upon to apply this definition to the followingfacts.An army hut, which was constructed in seven sections, rested o......

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