Langdon v Horton

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Year1951
Date1951
CourtCourt of Appeal
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10 cases
  • Wandsworth London Borough Council v Michalak
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 6 Marzo 2002
    ...can be seen between Jones v Whitehill [1950] 2 KB 204, where a niece by marriage was held to be entitled to a successor tenancy, and Langdon v Horton [1951] 1 KB 66 where that status was denied to a first cousin. Even under the Rent Act Mr Michalak would have been treated as being too dist......
  • Fitzpatrick v Sterling Housing Association Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 28 Octubre 1999
    ...in practice the more remote the kinship the less frequently will they be found sharing their lives together as a family in one home. Langdon v. Horton [1951] 1 K.B. 666 is an instance of this. First cousins, sharing a residence for purposes of convenience, were held not to 47The second poi......
  • Dyson Holdings Ltd v Fox
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 17 Octubre 1975
    ...to use Shakespeare's words in Henry V, Act IV, Scene I; quoted by SirRaymond Evershed, Member of the Rolls, in this context in Langdon v. Horton (1951) 1 K. B. at page 669; or in modern words, by the ordinary man in the street, see Brook v. Wollams (1949) 2 K. B. at page 308 by Lord Justice......
  • Joram Developments Ltd v Sharratt
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 7 Marzo 1978
    ...Megaw has quoted from page 30 of the documents. It seems to me that, in the words of Sir Raymond Evershed, Master of the Rolls, in Langdon v. Horton (1951) 1 King's Bench 666 at page 669, Mr. Sharratt "had by [Eis] conduct assumed, as it were, a filial character", especially in the last yea......
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