Peter v Stirling

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1878
Year1878
CourtChancery Division
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5 cases
  • Re Blake, Deceased
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 8 March 1955
    ...getting in the estate and were payable out of the general personal estate in exoneration of the pecuniary legacies. Peter v. StirlingELR, 10 Ch. D. 279, and Re MauriceUNK, 75 L.T. 415, approved and followed. [1953. No. 3683.] In re Blake, Deceased In the Matter of the Trusts of the Will and......
  • Haughton, Sylbern v Pearl Haughton-Cassells & George H. Haughton
    • Jamaica
    • Supreme Court (Jamaica)
    • 28 June 2002
    ...for the purposes, of estate duty, to the executor as such is not such an expense, i.e. [testamentary] ..." 11 The early authority of Peter v. Stirling (1878) 10 Ch D 279 is illustrative of the type of expense that an executor should pay out of the general estate of the deceased and what exp......
  • Hsbc Trustee (Hong Kong) Ltd v Alexander Laufer And Others
    • Hong Kong
    • High Court (Hong Kong)
    • 27 September 2016
    ...of the estate, as raised (though not decided) by Jenkins LJ in In re Goetze [1953] Ch 96 at 111‑112 and supported by Peter v Stirling (1878) 10 Ch D 279 and In re Maurice (1896) 75 LT 415; 18 TLR 36, was not considered in In Re 95. Danckwerts J drew a distinction between a duty that is levi......
  • Re Pqr, Deceased
    • Bermuda
    • Supreme Court (Bermuda)
    • 6 August 2015
    ... ... Ms. Rana-Fahy's Skeleton Argument referred the Court in this regard to Peter-v-Stirling (1878) 10 Ch D 279 ... The dispute there was whether taxes payable on property which would only be distributed to residuary legatees should ... ...
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