Houston v Burns

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1918
Year1918
CourtHouse of Lords

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46 cases
  • Re Bennett. Gibson v Attorney General
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • Invalid date
    ... ... Dolan v. Macdermot (1867) L. R. 5 Eq. 60; (1868) L. R. 3 Ch. 676 followed ... Houston v. Burns [1918] A. C. 337, distinguished ... ADJOURNED SUMMONS ... BY her will, dated August 21, 1889, Marianna Katharine Bennett, then of ... ...
  • Re Syed Abdulrahman bin Shaikh bin Abdulrahman Alkaff, deceased
    • Malaysia
    • High Court (Malaysia)
    • 1 January 1953
  • Commissioners of Inland Revenue v McMullen
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 6 March 1980
    ...would make it void and the other effectual (c.f. Bruce v. The Presbytery of Deer Sc. 96 (1867) L.R. 1 H.L. Sc. 96, 97; Houston v. Burns [1918] A.C. 337 at 341, 2 per Finlay L.C. and c.f. also In re Bain, Public Trustee v. Ross [1930] 1 Ch. 224 at 230). In the present case I do not find it n......
  • Commissioners of Inland Revenue v Baddeley and Others (Trustees of the Newtown Trust)
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 17 February 1955
    ...words are directly applicable to the present case. and. being applied, are fatal to the contention of the Respondents. I do not refer to Houston v. Burns [1918] A.C. 337 or other cases in which the same principle has been applied, and come to the recent case of Williams' Trustees. which I h......
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