British South Africa Company v Companhia de Mocambique
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Date | 1893 |
| Court | House of Lords |
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174 cases
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Hesperides Hotels Ltd v Aegean Turkish Holidays Ltd
...contended that the court had no jurisdiction to entertain the action upon the principle established by this House in British South Africa Co. v. Companhia de Mocambique [1893] A.C. 602 (the " Mocambique case"). To enable himself to deal with the first point May J. addressed an enquiry to th......
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Murakami Takako (executrix of the estate of Takashi Murakami Suroso, deceased) v Wiryadi Louise Maria and Others
...the other foreign properties (“the Claims”) were caught by the rule in The British South Africa Company v The Companhia de Moçambique [1893] AC 602 (“the Moçambique rule”), the effect of which is that the court has no jurisdiction to determine the title to, or the right to possession of, an......
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Said Tony Hamed v Jeremy Stevens
...is based on a contract or equity between the parties. Discussion. 11 The current formulation of the Mocambique rule ( British South Africa Co. v. Companhia de Mocambique [1893] AC 602) in Dicey, Morris and Collins on The Conflict of Laws, 15 th Ed., (2012), Rule 131(3) is, in relevant part......
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1 firm's commentaries
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English Courts Will Take Jurisdiction For Infringement Of Foreign Patents!
...Trooper' helmet from the well known Star Wars films), the Moçambique rule (established in British South Africa Co v Cia de Moçambique [1893] AC 602)1 did not prevent the English courts from hearing claims concerning non-UK designations of patents, so long as validity of the patent was not i......
22 books & journal articles
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CONTEMPT ORDERS AND JUDICIAL “ATTACHMENT” OF EQUITABLE PROPERTY
...on the territorial limits of the competence of the English courts or of the competence which they will recognise in foreign states”. 96 [1893] AC 602, adopted in Ng Teck Sim Colin v Hat Holdings Pte Ltd[2010] 4 SLR(R) 840. 97 See R Griggs Group Ltd v Evans[2005] Ch 153, affirmed [2005] EWCA......
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Table of Cases
...British Marine Mutual Hull Insurance Association (Bermuda) Ltd, Re, unreported 10.80 British South Africa Co v Companhia de Moçambique [1893] AC 602, 63 LJQB 70, 69 LT 604, HL 22.65 Brumark Investments Ltd, Re, See Agnew v Commissioner of Inland Revenue Brust v Irving Trust Co, 129 F Supp 4......
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Conflict of Laws in Bermuda
...119 Lisa SA , n 112, above. 120 See Dicey and Morris, 10th edn, n 6, above, at Rule 77; British South Africa Co v Companhia de Moçambique [1893] AC 602; Hesperides Hotels Ltd v Aegean Turkish Holidays Ltd [1979] AC 508. governed, in general, by the law of the country where the movable prope......
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Table of cases
...Medical Association v. Marsh (1931), 48 R.P.C. 565 (Ch.) ............... 136 British South Africa Co. v. Companhia de Moçambique, [1893] A.C. 602 (H.L.) ........................................................................... 304 British Telecommunications plc v. One in a Million Ltd., [......
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