Leahy v Attorney General (N.S.W.)

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Judgment Date1959
Date1959
Year1959
CourtPrivy Council

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    • Chancery Division
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    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
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    ...(ii) cannot be supported in law. Reliance for this proposition is placed principally on Leahy v. Attorney-General for New South Wales[1959] A.C. 457. Here the gift was a non-charitable purpose gift. There is no doubt the gift could not be charitable: see National Anti-Vivisection Society v.......
  • Wong, Wen-Young v (1) Grand View Private Trust Company Ltd, (2) Transglobe Private Trust Company Ltd
    • Bermuda
    • Supreme Court (Bermuda)
    • 22 Junio 2022
    ...law a charitable trust is by definition a trust for exclusively charitable purposes. In Leahy v Attorney General of New South Wales [1959] AC 457 at 473 (PC), where a statutory variation of this rule was under consideration, Viscount Simonds opined as follows: “ As the law stood before its ......
  • National Tourism Development Authority v Coughlan
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 17 Febrero 2009
    ...performance of the trust may be decreed: Maurice v. Bishop of Durham (1804) 9 Ves 399, 404; Leahy v. Attorney General of New South Wales [1959] A.C. 457, 478; Re Denley's Trust Deed [1969] 1 Ch. 373. Consequently, trusts for purposes or objects are invalid, for a purpose or object cannot su......
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  • Case Note
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2017, December 2017
    • 1 Diciembre 2017
    ...v Attorney-General[2013] 4 SLR 491 at [18]. 80 See Petingall v Petingall(1842) 11 LJ Ch 176; Re Hooper[1932] 1 Ch 38; Mussett v Bingle(1959) AC 457. 81 Vintage Bullion DMCC v Chay Fook Yuen [2016] 4 SLR 1248 at [55]. 82 Vintage Bullion DMCC v Chay Fook Yuen [2016] 4 SLR 1248 at [56]. 83Vint......
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    • United States
    • Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law Vol. 32 No. 4, October 1999
    • 1 Octubre 1999
    ...INTERNATIONAL TRUST LAWS, supra note 5, at D7.40. (116.) See 1 INTERNATIONAL TRUST LAWS, supra note 5, at B4-3. (117) See id. (118.) [1959] 2 All E.R. 300 (119.) Id. at 307. (120.) P.J. Millett Q.C., The Quistclose Trust: Who Can Enforce It?, 101 L.Q.R. 269, 282 (1985). (121.) See UNDERHILL......