Edwards v Jenkins
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1896 |
| Court | Chancery Division |
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12 cases
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New Windsor Corporation v Mellor
...of the village and their guests, but not if it applied to all the world at large, see Fitch v. Rawling (1795) 2 H. Bl. 394. In Edwards v. Jenkins (1896) I. Ch. 308 Mr. Justice Kekewich held that a custom for the inhabitants of three parishes to play on a field in one of these parishes was b......
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Paddico (267) Ltd v (1) Kirklees Metropolitan Council and Others
...from Pangbourne] had also been in the habit of playing upon and using Shooters'-hill". 74 Mr Laurence placed the greatest reliance on Edwards v. Jenkins [1896] 1 Ch 308, an ex tempore decision of Kekewich J, in which he decided that a custom to exercise a right of recreation on a piece of l......
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Oxfordshire County Council v Oxford City Council
...that some people danced, but that everybody else in the world who chose danced and played cricket, you have got beyond your custom." In Edwards v Jenkins 32 it was even held to be fatal that the claimed rights were enjoyed by three parishes, rather than one. Although Lord Denning doubted th......
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Jonathan Adamson v Paddico (267) Ltd (1) and Others
...to the law. The only case in which it had been held that a custom could not be shared by the inhabitants of more than one locality – Edwards v Jenkins [1896] 1 Ch 308– had been questioned in New Windsor Corporation v Mellor [1975] Ch 380– see per Lord Denning MR at page 387, and was doubted......
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3 books & journal articles
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Criteria for Registration in Commons Act 2006, Section 15
...Lord Hoffmann further opined in Oxfordshire that a neighbourhood within a 78 [2012] EWCA Civ 262 at [29]. 79 [1905] 2 Ch 188. 80 [1896] 1 Ch 308. 81 [1975] Ch 380. 82 [1975] Ch 380 at 387A. 83 [2000] 1 AC 335. 84 [2006] UKHL 25, [2006] 2 AC 674. 85 [2006] UKHL 25, [2006] 2 AC 674 at [25]. l......
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Table of Cases
...5.1 Ecroyd v Coulthard [1897] 2 Ch 554, 66 LJCh 751, 77 LT 357; affd [1898] 2 Ch 358, 67 LJCh 458, 78 LT 702 6.8, 12.4 Edwards v Jenkins [1896] 1 Ch 308, 65 LJCh 222, 73 LT 574, ChD 4.2 Egerton v Harding [1975] 1 QB 62, [1974] 3 WLR 437, [1974] 3 All ER 689, 28 P&CR 369 4.1, 4.6 Epsom Borou......
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Custom and Variety
...say at this point that I cannot 17 See Oxfordshire County Council v Oxford City Council [2006] 2 AC 674. 18 [2012] EWCA Civ 262. 19 [1896] 1 Ch 308, per Kekewich J at 313. 20 [1975] Ch 380 at 387. 21 [2006] 2 AC 674 at [11]. 22 Ibid at [27]. 23 By Carnwath LJ: [2006] Ch 43 at [65]. agree wi......