Cooper v Stuart

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Judgment Date1888
Date1888
CourtPrivy Council
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24 cases
  • Collector of Land Revenue v Hoalim
    • Singapore
    • Privy Council
    • 21 December 1976
  • Warren v Immigration Bd
    • Cayman Islands
    • Grand Court (Cayman Islands)
    • 10 April 2002
    ...Mrs. S.A. Brooks-Hurst for the plaintiff; S. Hall-Jones, Senior Crown Counsel, for the defendant. Case cited: (1) Cooper v. StuartELR(1889), 14 App. Cas. 286, followed. Legislation construed: Caymanian Protection Law, 1984 (Law 24 of 1984), s.18(5): The relevant terms of this sub-section ar......
  • Wong, Wen-Young v (1) Grand View Private Trust Company Ltd, (2) Transglobe Private Trust Company Ltd
    • Bermuda
    • Supreme Court (Bermuda)
    • 22 June 2022
    ...circumstances of the BVI?” 876 In my judgment the principles are in fact more complicated than that. In Cooper-v-Stuart [1889] UKPC 1; 14 App Cas 286, to which Professor Belle-Antoine referred, Lord Watson (delivering the advice of the Privy Council in a New South Wales appeal) expressly op......
  • Takamore v Clarke COA CA
    • New Zealand
    • Court of Appeal
    • 23 November 2011
    ...refused to recognise the customary laws of the indigenous inhabitants. Refer for example Doe dem Sheldon v Ramsay (1852) 9 UCQB 105, Cooper v Stuart (1889) 14 AC 286 (PC) at 291–294, R v Cobby (1883) 4 NSWLR 355 at 356, R v Murrell [1836] 1 Legge 72 and the discussion in Walters “The Golden......
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14 books & journal articles
  • The Definition and Discovery of Facts in Native Title: The Historian's Contribution
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Federal Law Review No. 36-3, September 2008
    • 1 September 2008
    ...of Originalism' in Ngaire Naffine, Rosemary Owens and John Williams (eds), Intention in Law and Philosophy (2001) 321, 334–5. 15 (1889) 14 App Cas 286, 291 (Lord Watson) (Privy Council). 16 Mabo (1992) 175 CLR 1, 58, 69 (Brennan J); 104–9 (Deane and Gaudron JJ). 17 David Ritter and Frances ......
  • The Development of the High Court's Willingness to Overrule Common Law Precedent
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Federal Law Review No. 45-2, June 2017
    • 1 June 2017
    ...colony in its infancy could ‘gradually be attracted to it’ with the advancement of social and economic conditions: Cooper v Stuart (1889) 14 App Cas 286, 292 (Lord Watson). See generally, Castles, above n 3, 505–7; W Harrison Moore, ‘A Century of Victorian Law’ (1934) Journal of Comparative......
  • The Common Law in Australia: Its Nature and Constitutional Significance
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Federal Law Review No. 32-3, September 2004
    • 1 September 2004
    ...and Status of English Law in Australia' (1963) 2 Adelaide Law Review 1. 9 Quan Yick v Hinds (1905) 2 CLR 345. 10 Cooper v Stuart (1889) 14 App Cas 286, 292–3; Delohery v Permanent Trustee Co of NSW (1904) 1 CLR 283, 289, 291. 11 State Government Insurance Commission v Trigwell (1979) 142 CL......
  • The Common Law in Australia: Its Nature and Constitutional Significance
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Federal Law Review No. 32-3, September 2004
    • 1 September 2004
    ...and Status of English Law in Australia' (1963) 2 Adelaide Law Review 1. 9 Quan Yick v Hinds (1905) 2 CLR 345. 10 Cooper v Stuart (1889) 14 App Cas 286, 292–3; Delohery v Permanent Trustee Co of NSW (1904) 1 CLR 283, 289, 291. 11 State Government Insurance Commission v Trigwell (1979) 142 CL......
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