Higgins and Others v Dawson and Others
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Judgment Date | 28 November 1901 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1901] UKHL J1128-1 |
| Date | 28 November 1901 |
[1901] UKHL J1128-1
House of Lords
Higgins and Others
and
Dawson and Others.
1
After hearing Counsel, as well on Tuesday last as this day, upon the Petition and Appeal of the Reverend Gilbert Higgins, the Reverend Augustine White, and the Reverend Ildephonsus Layard, all of No. 12, Wormesley Road, Stroud Green, in the county of London, and of Spetisbury, in the county of Dorset, and of Bodmin and Truro, in the county of Cornwall, Canons Regular of the Lateran, praying, That the matter of the Order set forth in the Schedule thereto, namely, an Order of Her Majesty's Court of Appeal, of the 3d of August 1900, might be reviewed before Her Majesty the Queen, in Her Court of Parliament, and that the said Order might be reversed, varied, or altered, or that the Petitioners might have such other relief in the premises as to Her Majesty the...
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