Pratt v Pratt

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Year1938
CourtHouse of Lords
Date1938
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20 cases
  • W v W. (No. 2)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal
    • 13 Julio 1954
    ...which, in my judgment, has to be applied to the facts of this case. I take my first from the well—known case in the House of Lords of Pratt v. Pratt, reported in 1939 Appeal Cases, page 417. I will read a passage from Lord Romer's Opinion, beginning at the bottom of page 426, and, particula......
  • Bell v Bell
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 31 Julio 1941
    ...statutory period of four years prescribed by the Act of 1573. As my noble and learned friend Lord Macmillan remarked in Pratt v. Pratt, 1939, A.C. 417, it was inherent in the conception of marital desertion that the desertion must be persisted in without the consent and against the wishes o......
  • Re Dankbars
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal
    • 30 Octubre 1953
    ...and complexity; but the learned Judge felt that the case was concluded so far as he was concerned by two cases, the first called Pratt v. Pratt, in 1927, and the second Markham v. Markham, in 1946, both being decisions of the Divisional Court of the Probate, Divorce & Admiralty Division; an......
  • Brewer v Brewer
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal
    • 24 Octubre 1961
    ...necessary to constitute desertion. 22 In support of this proposition reliance is pieced on the well-known statement of Lord Lacmillen in pratt v. Pratt (1939 Appeal Cases, page 417) where he said at page 420: "In fulfilling its duty of determining whether on the evidence a case of desertion......
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