Callender, Sykes & Company v Colonial Secretary of Lagos ; Williams v Davies

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Judgment Date1891
Year1891
Date1891
CourtPrivy Council

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10 cases
  • Re Al Sabah
    • Cayman Islands
    • Grand Court (Cayman Islands)
    • 27 March 2002
    ...applied. (2) Blum v. Bruce Campbell & Co., 1992–93 CILR 591, referred to. (3) Callender, Sykes & Co. v. Colonial Secy. of Lagos, [1891] A.C. 460, applied. (4) Clunies-Ross, ex p. Totterdell, Re(1988), 82 Aust. L.R. 475; on appeal, 20 Fed. C.R. 358, referred to. (5) Didisheim v. London & Wes......
  • Al Sabah and another v Grupo Torras SA and another
    • United Kingdom
    • Privy Council
    • 11 January 2005
    ...with general rules of law, was intended to apply throughout the Empire. So in Callender, Sykes & Co v Colonial Secretary of Lagos [1891] AC 460, the Board held (at a time when Nigeria had no bankruptcy law of its own) that the general vesting provisions of the Bankruptcy Act 1869 of the Uni......
  • Re Doyle; ex parte Brien
    • Australia
    • Federal Court
    • Invalid date
  • Re Al Sabah
    • United Kingdom
    • Privy Council
    • 11 January 2005
    ...Comm. Intl. S.A. (No. 9), Re, [1994] 3 All E.R. 764; [1994] 2 BCLC 636, followed. (3) Callender, Sykes & Co. v. Colonial Secy. of Lagos, [1891] A.C. 460, referred to. (4) Dallhold Estates (UK) Pty. Ltd., Re, [1992] BCLC 621; [1992] BCC 394, followed. (5) Debtor (Order in Aid No. 1 of 1979),......
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