Pettitt v Pettitt
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judge | Lord Reid,Lord Morris of Borth-y-Gest,Lord Hodson,Lord Upjohn,Lord Diplock |
| Judgment Date | 23 April 1969 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1969] UKHL J0423-2 |
| Date | 23 April 1969 |
| Court | House of Lords |
-
- This document is available in original version only for vLex customers
View this document and try vLex for 7 days - TRY VLEX
- This document is available in original version only for vLex customers
748 cases
- Cummins v the Trustees of the Property of John Daniel Cummins¸ A Bankrupt
- Liew Choy Hung v Fork Kian Seng
- Ho Shik Ho; Phua Beng Hong
-
Chapman v Chapman
...MASTER OF THE ROLLS 1 This is the first case between husband and wife that we have had in this Court since the House of Lords decided Pettitt v. Pettitt (1969 2 W.L.R. 966). Husband and wife were married on 2nd April, 1960. He was an officer with an airways company, earning about £1,300 a y......
Request a trial to view additional results
1 firm's commentaries
-
I Also Own A Share Of The Property!
...beneficial interest must prove that the legal owner holds the property upon trust to give effect to his interest: see Pettitt v. Pettitt [1970] AC 777 at 813-814, HL per Lord However, depending on the circumstances this is not too problematic to overcome. Beneficial ownership may be establi......
33 books & journal articles
-
Osborne v Estate of Osborne: an equitable agreement or a contract in law: merely a matter of nomenclature?
...Cf Cope, above n 4, 526. (130) (1995) 14 WAR 35. (131) Ibid 41-2 (Master Adams). (132) (1967) 64 DLR (2d) 48, 49. Cf Pettitt v Pettitt [1970] AC 777, 796 (Lord Reid); Cassidy, above n 4, (133) [2001] VSCA 228 (Unreported, Winneke P, Buchanan and Vincent JJA, 14 December 2001) [18] (Winneke ......
-
Table of Cases
...3 WLR 1032, [1993] 1 All ER 42, HL 271 Peso Silver Mines Ltd (NPL) v Cropper [1966] SCR 673, Canadian Sup Ct 161, 173 Pettitt v Pettitt [1970] AC 777, [1969] 2 WLR 966, [1969] 2 All ER 385, HL 223–225, 231 Pioneer Container, The [1994] 2 AC 324, [1994] 3 WLR 1, [1994] 2 All ER 250, PC 95, 1......
-
REFORMING ILLEGALITY IN PRIVATE LAW
...not apply to gifts between a man and his mistress. 75 [1999] Ch 373 at 385, citing support from numerous other passages: Pettitt v Pettitt[1970] AC 777 at 824, per Lord Diplock; Tribe v Tribe[1996] Ch 107 at 118, per Nourse LJ and 128—129, per Millett LJ. 76 [1994] 1 AC 340. 77 Law Commissi......
-
THE LAW WANTS TO BE FORMAL.
...legal categories and the rationale emerging from accumulated practices. See Priel, supra note 1, at 610-12. (296) See Pettit v. Pettit [1969] 2 All ER 385 (HL) at 390 (Lord Reid); BURROWS, supra note 141, at 77-81, 81 n.87 (2018) (positing a zone of "lawyer's law" that is unlikely to be add......
Request a trial to view additional results