Clift v Schwabe

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1846
CourtExchequer
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5 cases
  • Re Davis, decd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • January 30, 1967
    ...the word 'suicide', provided it be the intentional act of a party knowing the probable consequence of what he is about": Baron Rolfe in Clift v. Schwabe (1846) 3 Common Bench 437 at page 464. A fall during a fit or delirium or sleep-walking would justify a verdict of misadventure, but that ......
  • Ramnath v Motor and General Insurance Company Ltd
    • Trinidad & Tobago
    • High Court (Trinidad and Tobago)
    • July 14, 1994
    ...is a question of law for the court and not a question of fact for the jury. Simond v. Boydell (1779) Doug 268, 272; Clift v. Schwabe (1846) 3 C.B. 437,469. PAROL EVIDENCE ADMITTED — CONSTRUCTION 268 It appears also that where parol evidence is admitted, the matter in issue is no longer a me......
  • The Amicable Society for a Perpetual Life Assurance Office, - Appellants; James Bolland, Joseph Hare, and Matthias Koops Knight, - Respondents
    • United Kingdom
    • High Court of Chancery
    • January 1, 1830
    ...v. Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association, [1892] 1 Q. B. 149. See also Borradaile v. Hunter, 1843, 5 M. & G. 639; Clift v. Schwabe, 1846, 3 C. B. 437; Dufaur v. Professional Life Co., 1858, 25 Beav. 602; and Horn v. Anglo-Australian Co., 1861, 7 Jur. N. S. 673. IV BLIGH N. S. AMICABLE SOCIET......
  • Amicable Society for a Perpetual Assurance Office, - Appellants; Bolland and Others, Assignees of Fauntleroy, - Respondents
    • United Kingdom
    • High Court of Chancery
    • January 1, 1830
    ...v. Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association [1892], 1 Q.B. 149. See also Borradaile v. Hunter, 1843, 5 M. and G. 639; Gift v. Schwabe, 1846, 3 C.B. 437; Dufaur v. Professional Life Co., 1858, 25 Beav. 602; Horn v. Anglo-Australian Co., 1861, 7 Jur. N.S. 673. KEPOKTS OF CASES heard in the House ......
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