Brodie v Brodie

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Year1917
Date1917
CourtProbate, Divorce and Admiralty Division
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13 cases
  • Ng Bee Hoon v Tan Heok Boon
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 27 February 1992
    ...before your Lordships that the above statement is a correct statement of English law.` He then approved the decision in Brodie v Brodie [1917] P 271[1916] All ER Rep 237[] 117 LT 542[] 33 TLR 525 and went on to say (at p 152G): The fact is that in the English law of marriage there is no roo......
  • MacLeod v MacLeod
    • United Kingdom
    • Privy Council
    • 17 December 2008
    ...H v W (1857) 3 K & J 382. It was applied to a pre-nuptial agreement to live apart re-signed immediately after marriage in Brodie v Brodie [1917] P 271. 20 A different aspect of public policy in relation to separation agreements arose in Hyman v Hyman [1929] AC 601. The husband and wife had ......
  • Vervaeke (formerly Messina) v Smith
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 7 April 1982
    ...In addition to the citation of authority by Ormrod J. in the passage above quoted one might also refer to the decision in Brodie v. Brodie [1917] P.271. However, I regard the position as incontestable at least to the extent that I have stated above. The fact is that in the English law of ma......
  • Kwong Sin Hwa v Lau Lee Yen
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 20 January 1993
    ...marriage to separate and live apart after marriage is contrary to public policy and void and he relied on the case of Brodie v Brodie [1917] P 271[1916-17] All ER 237 and said that that statement of law was followed in Morgan v Morgan [1959] P 92[1959] 1 All ER 539[1959] 2 WLR 487 He examin......
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3 books & journal articles
  • Illegality
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books The Law of Contracts. Third Edition Vitiating Factors
    • 4 August 2020
    ...v Kelly (1926), 42 TLR 258 (HL). 35 Fender v St John-Mildmay , [1938] AC 1 (HL). See also Skipp v Kelly , ibid . 36 Brodie v Brodie , [1917] P 271. Illegality 507 separation of spouses was void as against public policy. 37 Modern legislation concerning domestic agreements, however, typicall......
  • Marriage
    • Jamaica
    • Family Law in Jamaica
    • 18 August 2018
    ...choice for the parties with which the law has little concern.9187. [1967] 3 All ER 401.88. R v Jackson [1891] 1 QB 671.89. Brodie v Brodie [1917] P 271.90. ‘Companionate marriage’ per Morgan v Morgan [1959] P 92.91. In Jamaica non-consummation grounds has been abolished by the repeal of the......
  • WHEN SPOUSES AGREE
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2006, December 2006
    • 1 December 2006
    ...Ed. 4 Leong Wai Kum, Principles of Family Law in Singapore (Butterworths Asia, 1997) at p 364. 5 [1993] 1 SLR 457. 6 Ibid, at 469, [38]. 7 [1917] P 271. See also Vervaeke v Smith[1983] 1 AC 145. 8 Supra n 5, at 469, [38]. 9 See also Nigel Lowe & Gillian Douglas, Bromley’s Family Law (Butter......

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