Eckersall against Briggs

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1790
CourtCourt of the King's Bench
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8 cases
  • Holford v Copeland
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Common Pleas
    • 19 May 1802
    ...the children, was ii ft rateable in respect of those buildings. The present question is decided by the case of Eekersall v. Briggs, 4 T. R. 6, which arose upon another paving act, 10 Geo. 3, c. 23, and where Lord Kenyon says, "The question then is, what is meant by public buildings and that......
  • The Queen against The Guardians of the Poor of the Wallingford Union, in the Counties of Berks and Oxford
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of the Queen's Bench
    • 29 May 1839
    ...will not account; for all the cases, as Lord Amherst v. Lord Sommers (2 T. R. 372) (recognised by Lord Kenyon in Eckersall v. Briggs (4 T. R. 6. See p. 9)), Holford \. [266] Copeland (3 B. & P. 129), Rex v. Woodward (5 T. R. 79). But in fact the occupation here is for a public purpose ; and......
  • Netherton against Ward
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of the King's Bench
    • 6 November 1819
    ...public purposes. The possessions of the Crown are not rateable to the poor. Lord Amherst v. Lord Somers (2 T. E. 372), Edcersall v. Briggs (4 T. R. 6), Holford v. Copeland (3 Bos. & Pul. 129). By the 23 H. 8, c. 5, the sewer rate is imposed on the landlord, and not on the occupier. It is a ......
  • Doe on the demise of Willis and Others v Martin and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of the King's Bench
    • 19 November 1790
    ...the transaction may be separated from the subsequent fraud, and the deed of revocation was good, taken (ft) 2 P. Wma. 678. (b) 1 P. Wms. 128. 4T.R.6* DOE V, MARTIN 895 simply by itself, it follows that the legal title is in the defendants, under which they may protect themselves in a Court ......
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