Blackpool Corporation v Starr Estate Company

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1922
CourtHouse of Lords
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  • Emilia Shipping Inc v State Enterprise for Pulp and Paper Industries
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 1 March 1991
    ...has referred to the following authorities: Mary Seward v Owner of `Vera Crux` (1884) 10 App Cas 59; Corp of Blackpool v Starr Estate Co [1922] 1 AC 27; Baker v Edger [1898] AC 748. I do not propose to examine these cases. The principle is well established. In the Blackpool Corp case, Lord H......
  • Henry Boot Construction (UK) Ltd v Malmaison Hotel (Manchester) Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 28 July 2000
    ...by force of such general words, without any indication of a particular intention to do so. In Blackpool Corporation v Starr Estate Co Ltd [1922] 1 AC 27, (HL) Viscount Haldane said at page 34: My Lords, in that state of matters we are bound, in construing the general language of the Act of ......
  • Dean v Wiesengrund
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal
    • 4 May 1955
    ...during his lifetime, was based upon an application of the maxim "Generalis specislibus non t." Reliance was placed upon Blackpool corporation v. Starr Estate Company, which is reported in 1922 1 Appeal Cases at page 27. Lord Haldane in his Speech at page 34 said: "My Lords, in that state of......
  • Henry Boot v Malmaison
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 28 July 2000
    ...by force of such general words, without any indication of a particular intention to do so.’ In Blackpool Corp v Starr Estate Co LtdELR[1922] 1 AC 27 (HL), Viscount Haldane said at p. 34: ‘My Lords, in that state of matters we are bound, in construing the general language of the Act of 1919,......
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  • Interpretation Of Statutes
    • Nigeria
    • DSC Publications Online Sasegbon's Laws of Nigeria. Volume 12 Interpretation Of Statutes
    • 3 July 2016
    ...of such general words, without any indication of a particular intention to do so.” And in Blackpool Corporation v. Starr Estate Co. Ltd. (1922) 1 A.C. 27 at 37. Viscount Haldane explained the position more fully and deserves to be stated in extenso as follows: - “………… wherever parliament in......

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