Houston v Burns
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1918 |
| Court | House of Lords |
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- Re Syed Abdulrahman bin Shaikh bin Abdulrahman Alkaff, deceased
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Commissioners of Inland Revenue v Baddeley and Others (Trustees of the Newtown Trust)
...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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Reid's Trustees v Cattanach's Trustees
...that it can be easily understood as exegetical of that word. In Turnbull's Trustees v. Lord AdvocateELR, 1918 S. C. (H. L.) 88, [1918] A. C. 337, the clause was held too indefinite to receive effect, first because the clause fell to be read as if it had been expressed for public purposes or......
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Commissioners of Inland Revenue v McMullen
...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......
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