Cocks v Manners

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CourtEquity
Year1871
Date1871

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34 cases
  • Bank of Ireland Trustee Company Ltd v Attorney General
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 30 July 1957
    ...I.R. 13 distinguished; Attorney-Generalv. Hall [1897] 2 I.R. 426 and O'Hanlonv. Logue [1906] 1 I.R. 247 approved; Clocks v. MannersELR L.R. 12 Eq. 574 not followed. Bank of Ireland Trustee Co., Ltd. and Others v. Attorney General. In re KATE MARY SHERIDAN, Deceased; BANKof IRELAND TRUSTEE C......
  • Re Howley; Naughton v Hegarty
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 12 December 1940
    ... ... 569. MacLaughlin v. Campbell, [1906] 1 I. R. 588, and Dunne v. Byrne, [1912] A. C. 407 , distinguished. Dictum in Cocks v. Manners, 12 Eq. 574, doubted in its application to this country. Held further, that the bequest for masses—£2 each to the ... ...
  • Warre's Will Trusts, Re. Wort v Salisbury Diocesan Board of Finance
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • Invalid date
    ... ... house might be highly beneficial to the individuals who frequented it, it lacked the element of benefit to the public, which, as laid down in Cocks v. Manners (1871) L.R. 12 Eq. 574, was essential to render a purpose charitable in the legal sense; (iii) that, even if the final clause disposing of ... ...
  • Gilmour v Coats
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 8 April 1949
    ...and, having done so, ask what are the compelling reasons for a change. 15I need not go back beyond the case of ( Cocks v. Manners L.R. 12 Eq. 574), which was decided nearly 80 years ago by Wickens V.C. In that case the testatrix left her residuary estate between a number of religious instit......
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1 books & journal articles
  • Religious charitable status and public benefit in Australia.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 35 No. 3, December 2011
    • 1 December 2011
    ...Commission for England and Wales, Analysis of the Law Underpinning the Advancement of Religion for the Public Benefit (2008) 18. (22) (1871) LR 12 Eq 574. (23) Ibid (24) (1804) 9 Ves Jun 399; 32 ER 656, affd (1805) 10 Ves Jun 522; 32 ER 947. (25) Morice (1804) 9 Ves Jun 399, 405; 32 ER 656,......