Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Company v MacNicoll

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1918
CourtDivisional Court
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19 cases
  • Bryanston Leasings Ltd v Principality Finance Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • Invalid date
  • The "Cherry" and others
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 5 April 2002
    ...As Atkin J explained in Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, London and North Western Railway Company, and Graeser Ltd v MacNicoll (1918) 118 LT 596 at 598 It appears to me plain that dealing with goods in a manner inconsistent with the right of the true owner amounts to a conversion, ......
  • Kuwait Airways Corporation v Iraqi Airways Company (Nos 4 & 5)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 27 March 2002
    ...goods", an expression which was adopted by Lord Cairns LC in his speech at p 797. 421 In Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway v MacNicholl (1919) 88 LJKB 601 Atkin J said at p 605: "It appears to me plain that dealing with goods in a manner inconsistent with the right of the true owner amounts ......
  • Club Cruise Entertainment & Travelling Services Europe v Department of Transport (The Van Gogh)
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 18 November 2008
    ... ... plaintiff to collect the goods from the relevant railway depot. As the judge said, by that refusal, the defendant ... ...
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2 books & journal articles
  • THE FINE ART OF FRAUD.
    • United Kingdom
    • Art Antiquity & Law Vol. 27 No. 4, December 2022
    • 1 December 2022
    ...1982, in Rem, above, note 17. (21) Fact summary taken from The Government's Sentencing Memorandum, above, note 4, p. 12. (22) (1919) 88 L.J.K.B. 601 at (23) Per Lord Nicholls, in Kuwait Airways Corp. v. Iraqi Airways Co. (Nos 4 and 5) [2002] 2 A.C. 883, at para. 39. (24) Conversion applies ......
  • United Nations and African Union Conventions on Corruption and Anti-corruption Legislations in Nigeria: A Comparative Analysis
    • United Kingdom
    • African Journal of International and Comparative Law No. , June 2014
    • 1 June 2014
    ...149, HC. as an offence of corruption. The definition of ‘conversion’ by Atkin J in Lancashire Yorkshire Railway Company v MacNicol112112(1919) 88 LJKB 601, 605. as dealing with goods in a manner inconsistent with the rights of the true owner coupled with an intention to deny the owner's rig......

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