Hibbert v McKiernan

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1948
CourtKing's Bench Division
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14 cases
  • Warner v Metropolitan Police Commissioner; R v Warner
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 2 May 1968
    ...finders of goods on premises ( Bridges v. Hawkesworth 21 L.J.Q.B. 75; South Stafford-shire Water Co. v. Sharman [1896] 2 Q.B. 44; Hibbert v. McKiernan [1948] 2 K.B. 142) or in relation to sovereign immunity ( U.S.A. v. Dollfus Mieg u.s.) That the solution adopted ultimately depends upon t......
  • Parker v British Airways Board
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 21 December 1981
    ...the surface of the soil and so subject to different considerations. It is also reflected in the judgment of Lord Goddard C.J. in Hibbert v. Mckiernan, (1948) 2 K.B. 142 at page 149. That was a criminal case concerning the theft of "lost" golf balls on the private land of a club. The only i......
  • The State v Francis Kumo Gene [1991] PNGLR 33
    • Papua New Guinea
    • National Court
    • 8 January 1991
    ...we are now concerned to specify the owner of the property concerned: see the observations of Lord Goddard CJ in Hibbert v McKiernan [1948] 2 KB 142. But where the property is of a common and undistinctive type (as is the case with Francis Kumo Gene), in order that the accused person may kno......
  • Tabe v R
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 6 October 2005
    ...AC 582 at 605. 4Director of Public Prosecutions v Brooks [1974] AC 862 at 866. 5 (1978) 140 CLR 591 at 610. 6 eg Hibbert v McKiernan [1948] 2 KB 142; Moors v Burke (1919) 26 CLR 7 eg South Staffordshire Water Company v Sharman [1896] 2 QB 44. 8 cf Williams v The Queen (1978) 140 CLR 591. 9 ......
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6 books & journal articles
  • Cases referred to in 1963
    • Nigeria
    • DSC Publications Online Nigerian Supreme Court Cases. 1963 Preliminary Sections
    • 11 November 2022
    ...A.C. 550. 145 Hadida v. Fordham & Sons Ltd. (1893) 10 T.L.R. 139. 175 Hatton v. Harris (1892) A.C. 547. 128 Hibbert v. McKiernan (1948) 1 All E.R. 860. 255 Hickman v. Kent or Romney Marsh Sheepbreeders' Association (1920) 37 T.L.R. 163. 115 Hilton v. Earl of Granvill (1841) Cr. & Ph. 283 (4......
  • Preliminary Sections
    • Nigeria
    • DSC Publications Online Nigerian Supreme Court Cases. 1967 Preliminary Sections
    • 12 November 2022
    ...1 Q.B.309, C.A. [1962] 2 All E R 380 28 Hedley Bryne & Co.Ltd. v. Heller & Partners Ltd. (1940) A.C. 465. 67 Hibbert v. McKiernan [1948] 2 K.B. 142, 150; [1948] 1 All E.R. 860. . . 220 Houstoun v. Marquis of Sligo (1885) 29 Ch.D. 448; 52 LT. 96; 1 T.LR. 217 291 Hunter v. Wright [1938] 2 All......
  • Cases referred to in 1967
    • Nigeria
    • DSC Publications Online Nigerian Supreme Court Cases. 1967 Preliminary Sections
    • 12 November 2022
    ...1 Q.B.309, C.A. [1962] 2 All E R 380 28 Hedley Bryne & Co.Ltd. v. Heller & Partners Ltd. (1940) A.C. 465. 67 Hibbert v. McKiernan [1948] 2 K.B. 142, 150; [1948] 1 All E.R. 860. . . 220 Houstoun v. Marquis of Sligo (1885) 29 Ch.D. 448; 52 LT. 96; 1 T.LR. 217 291 Hunter v. Wright [1938] 2 All......
  • Abandonment, copyright and orphaned works: what does it mean to take the proprietary nature of intellectual property rights seriously?
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 35 No. 3, December 2011
    • 1 December 2011
    ...argue that it acquires rights as occupier of the land on which the bike was left. For similar arguments, see, eg, Hibbert v McKiernan [1948] 2 KB 142 (trespasser took from a golf course eight balls that had been abandoned by their owners; however, the occupier had a sufficient interest in t......
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