Ellis v Kerr

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CourtChancery Division
Judgment Date1910
Year1910
Date1910

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14 cases
  • Chia Foon Tau and Another v Lim Pey Lin
    • Malaysia
    • High Court (Malaysia)
    • 1 January 1998
  • Julian Lindsay Fernandez v Leessa Karen Fernandez
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 22 September 2025
    ...that a trustee or executor cannot contract with himself or convey property to himself: Williams v Scott [1900] AC 499, 504, PC; Ellis v Kerr [1910] 1 Ch 529, 534; Holder v Holder [1968] Ch 353, 391D-E. The Law of Property Act 1925, s 72, and the Administration of Estates Act 1925, s 36, hav......
  • Procter and another v Procter and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 1 January 2021
  • Aabar Block S.A.R.L. v Glenn Maud
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 11 June 2018
    ...non-performance of trust in refusing to take action to recover the debt can also be seen from the dictum of Warrington J in Ellis v Kerr [1910] 1 Ch 529 at page 540, “It is perfectly true that authorities have been cited in support of the well-known practice and doctrine in the Court of Cha......
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1 books & journal articles
  • Action
    • Nigeria
    • DSC Publications Online Sasegbon’s Laws of Nigeria. Volume 1 Action
    • 8 September 2016
    ...(Pt. 416) 644 at 652-653. (2) “There is no principle by which a man can be at the same time plaintiff and defendant. See: Ellis v. Keir (1910) 1 Ch. 529. There is also no such situation in the present proceedings. The plaintiff/appellants by their own volition excluded themselves from Okwoj......