Nixon v Attorney General
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 28 November 1930 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1930] UKHL J1128-1 |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Date | 28 November 1930 |
[1930] UKHL J1128-1
House of Lords
After hearing Counsel for the Appellants as well yesterday as this day, upon the Petition and Appeal of John Nixon, of 75, The Vale, Golders Green, in the County of London, John Scott, of 273, Wake Green Road, Moseley, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, William Clark, of 6, Osborne Villa, Tresowas, Ashton, Helston, in the County of Cornwall and Benjamin Louis Samuel, of 83a, High Street, Marylebone, in the County of London, praying, That the matter of the Order set forth in the Schedule thereto, namely an Order of His Majesty's Court of Appeal, of the 19th of February, 1930, might be reviewed before His Majesty the King, in His Court of Parliament, and that the said Order might be reversed, varied, or altered, or that the Petitioners might have such other relief in the premises as to His Majesty the King, in His Court of Parliament, might seem meet; as also upon the printed Case of His Majesty's Attorney-General, lodged in answer to the said Appeal; and Counsel appearing for the Respondent, but not being called upon; and due consideration being had of what was offered for the said Appellants:
It is Ordered and Adjudged, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in the Court of Parliament of His Majesty the King assembled, That the said Order of His Majesty's Court of Appeal, of the 19th day of February 1930,...
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