Cock v Cooke

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1865
Year1865
CourtCourt of Probate
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6 cases
  • Sheares Betty Hang Kiu v Chow Kwok Chi and Others
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 28 February 2006
    ...estate: at [38]. Baird (Luvinia) v Baird (Dickson) [1990] 2 AC 548 (refd) Beyer v Beyer [1960] VR 126 (refd) Cock v Cooke (1866) LR 1 P & D 241 (refd) Commissioner of Stamp Duties (Queensland) v Livingston [1965] AC 694 (refd) Ellenborough, In Re [1903] 1 Ch 697 (refd) Hamilton, In re [1895......
  • Re Q Revocable Trust; AQ v CQ
    • Bermuda
    • Supreme Court (Bermuda)
    • 16 April 2010
    ...Defendants Mr F Barlow, QC and Mr M Chudleigh as Amicus Curiae The following cases were referred to in the judgment: Cock v CookeELR (1866) LR 1 P&D 241 The King's Proctor v DainesENR (1830 3 Hagg Ecc 218 Shinbane v MinukUNK (1927) 3 DLR 550 Re PfrimmerUNK (1936) 2 DLR 460 Re Beardmore Trus......
  • Re the AQ Revocable Trust; BQ and another v DQ and Others
    • Bermuda
    • Supreme Court (Bermuda)
    • Invalid date
  • Dennis Donovan v Irene Donovan
    • British Virgin Islands
    • High Court (British Virgin Islands)
    • 31 March 2010
    ...necessary for a document, which is intended to operate as a will or codicil, to describe itself as such. Lord Penzance in Cock v Cooke (1866) LR 1 P & D 2413 explained it as follows: ‘It is undoubted law that whatever may be the form of a duly executed instrument, if the person executing it......
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1 firm's commentaries
  • Trusts And Settlors - Can A Settlor Have Too Much Power?
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq UK
    • 16 June 2022
    ...the full article click here Footnotes 1 [1991] 16 LS Gaz R 32. 2 [2009] EWHC 2076 (Ch). 3 [2017] JRC 100. 4 [2003] WTLR 367. 5 (1865–69) L.R. 1 P&D 241. 6 [1936] 2 DLR 7 [2010] SC (Bda) 40 Civ. 8 [2010] SC (Bda) 40 Civ. 9 [1997] EWCA Civ 1279. 10 [2001] EWCA Civ 63. 11 [2007] EWHC 99 (Fam).......
2 books & journal articles
  • RESERVATION OF SETTLOR’S POWERS
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2009, December 2009
    • 1 December 2009
    ...the Cake: A Global Survey of Settlor Reserved Power Trusts: Part I”(2007) 5 PCB 336 at 341. 9 As Sir John Wilde noted in Cocke v Cooke(1866) LR 1 P & D 241 at 243: “It is undoubted law that whatever may be in the form of a duly executed instrument, if the person executing it intends that it......
  • Ending or Changing a Trust
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books The Law of Trusts Express Trusts
    • 21 June 2014
    ...answer can be given as to which of the two constructions will be adopted, since the courts have accepted both. 5 Cock v Cooke (1866), LR 1 P & D 241 at 243 (Ct Prob). 6 Anderson v Patton , [1948] 2 DLR 202 (Alta CA). Ending or Changing a Tr ust 85 A third problem that arises from placing a ......

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