Cannon v Villars

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Year1877
Date1877
CourtChancery Division
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  • St. Edmundsbury and Ipswich Diocesan Board of Finance v Clark (No. 2)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 18 December 1974
    ...the natural meaning of the words contained in the document as a whole, read in the light of surrounding circumstances. In the case of Cannon v. Villars (8 Chancery Division, 415) this principle was applied by Sir George Jessel, Master of the Rolls, to rights of way in a passage (page 420) w......
  • Dwyer Nolan Developments Ltd v Kingscroft Developments Ltd
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 5 April 2001
    ...that, in considering the extent of the grant, the Court must have regard to all the surrounding circumstances ( Cannon -v- Villiers, (1878) 8 Ch.D. 415)." 17 Mr. Finnegan argues very forcibly that the reservation of a right of way in favour of the Plaintiff is at law the grant of that right......
  • Charles William Michael Lea v David Anthony Ward
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 6 September 2017
    ...in quo over which the way is granted; (2) the nature of the terminus ad quem; and (3) the purpose for which the way is to be used" Cannon v. Villars (1878) 8 Ch D 415 83 I accept the Defendant's Counsel's submissions that admissible aids to construction include: Where is point D? (a) The co......
  • Westfield Management Ltd v Perpetual Trustee Company Ltd
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 3 October 2007
    ...526 [35]; 224 ALR 79 at 88. 27 (2007) 81 ALJR 1107 at 1150–1152 [190]–[198]; 236 ALR 209 at 266–269. 28 (2007) 237 ALR 1 at 4 [10]. 36 (1878) 8 Ch D 415 at 37 Grinskis v Lahood [1971] NZLR 502 at 508. 38 Megarry and Wade, The Law of Real Property, 6th ed (2000) at 1153–1154 [18–197]. 39 An......
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