Jennings' Trustee v King

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CourtChancery Division
Year1952
Date1952

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4 cases
  • Belmont Park Investments Pty Ltd and Others v BNY Corporate Trustee Services Ltd and another (HM Revenue and Customs and another intervening)
    • United Kingdom
    • Supreme Court
    • 27 July 2011
    ...was correctly decided does not arise for decision on this appeal. It was cited, with apparent approval, by Harman J in Jennings' Trustee v King [1952] Ch 899, 911. It was not mentioned in any of the phases of the litigation in British Eagle [1975] 1 WLR 758 other than in the dissenting spee......
  • The ‘STX Mumbai’
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 27 June 2014
    ...Hooi Yin v Lim Teong Ghee [1990] 3 MLJ 23 (distd) Hochster v De la Tour (1853) 2 El & Bl 678; 118 ER 922 (refd) Jennings' Trustee v King [1952] Ch 899 (refd) Le Tarte v W Side Dev 855 A 2 d 505 (N H, 2004) (refd) Mackenzie v Rees (1941) 65 CLR 1 (refd) Man Financial (S) Pte Ltd v Wong Bark ......
  • The "STX Mumbai"
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 27 June 2014
    ...had wanted to pay. In contrast, Counsel for the defendant, Mr Moses Lin (“Mr Lin”) correctly submitted, relying on Jennings’ Trust v King [1952] Ch 899 (“Jennings”), that “a [party] ought not to be allowed to treat an act of bankruptcy before the date of completion as an anticipatory breach......
  • The ‘STX Mumbai’
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 24 July 2015
    ...on the basis of impossibility was necessarily premature and speculative. For example, in the central case of Jennings’ Trustee v King [1952] 1 Ch 899 (“Jennings”) which the Judge had relied on (see the GD at [46]–[47]), Harman J (sitting in the Chancery Division of the English High Court) h......
1 books & journal articles
  • Admiralty, Shipping and Aviation Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2014, December 2014
    • 1 December 2014
    ...contractual obligations. In coming to her decision, Ang J applied a long-running line of authorities, including Jennings' Trustee v King[1952] Ch 899, In re Agra Bank, ex parte Tondeur(1867) LR 5 Eq 160 and Winterton Constructions Pty Ltd v Hambros Australia Ltd(1992) 111 ALR 649, which sta......