"Camillo" Tank Steamship Company, Ltd, v Alexandria Engineering Works

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date28 November 1921
Judgment citation (vLex)[1921] UKHL J1128-1
CourtHouse of Lords
Date28 November 1921

[1921] UKHL J1128-1

House of Lords

"Camillo" Tank Steamship Company, Limited,
and
Alexandria Engineering Works.
1

After hearing Counsel, as well on Thursday the 20th, as Friday the 21st and Monday the 24th, days of October last, upon the Petition and Appeal of the "Camillo" Tank Steamship Company, Limited, whose Registered Office is situate at 28, Castle Street, Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, praying, That the matter of the Order set forth in the Schedule thereto, namely, an Order of His Majesty's Court of Appeal, of the 16th of November 1920, might be reviewed before His Majesty the King in His Court of Parliament, and that the said Order might be reversed, varied, or altered, or that the Petitioners might have such other relief in the premises as to His Majesty the King in His Court of Parliament might seem meet; as also upon the printed Case of the Alexandria Engineering Works, lodged in answer to the said Appeal; and due consideration had this day of what was offered on either side in this Cause:

2

It is Ordered and Adjudged, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in the Court of Parliament of His Majesty the King assembled, That the said Order of His Majesty's Court of Appeal, of the 16th day of November 1920, complained of in the said Appeal, be, and the same is hereby, Affirmed, and that the said Petition and Appeal be, and the same is hereby, dismissed this House: And it is further Ordered, That the...

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    ...and the figures are adjusted between the parties and a balance struck . See Camillo Tank SS Co Ltd v Alexandria Engineering Works (1921) 38 TLR 134 per Viscount Cave at 143: Siqueira v Noronha [1934] AC 332 per Lord Atkin at 337. In Laycock v Pickles , (1863) 4 B & S 497, cited with approv......
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  • RESTITUTION, FOREIGN ILLEGALITY AND FOREIGN MONEYLENDERS
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 1996, December 1996
    • 1 December 1996
    ...raised the same substantive issues. Lay cock v Pickles(1863) 4 B & S 497; Camillo Tank Steamship Co Ltd v Alexandria Engineering Works(1921) 38 TLR 134; Siqueira v Noronha[1934] AC 332. 29 In the case of the Moneylenders Act: In re Robinson’s Settlement[1912] 1 Ch 717; Deposit & Investment ......

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