Re Akerman. Akerman v Akerman

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1891
CourtChancery Division
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  • Re Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander Ltd (No 2)
    • United Kingdom
    • Supreme Court
    • 19 October 2011
    ...go back in time to the origins and development of the equitable rule. The rule was described as follows by Kekewich J in In re Akerman [1891] 3 Ch 212, 219: "A person who owes an estate money, that is to say, who is bound to increase the general mass of the estate by a contribution of his o......
  • Re Lehman Brothers International (Europe) ((in Administration))
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 14 March 2014
    ...of an estate against the estate's claim against him as a debtor. Lord Walker cited at [13] the statement of the rule by Kekewich J in In re Akerman [1891] 3 Ch 212 at 219: " A person who owes an estate money, that is to say, who is bound to increase the general mass of the estate by a contr......
  • Brazzill and Others v Willoughby and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 27 May 2010
    ...members, the mistaken overpayment (through under-deduction) not giving rise to a debt, and that "the equitable principle exemplified by In re Akerman [1891] 3 Ch 212 is not applicable save when the person seeking to obtain benefits due to him from a fund owes a debt to that fund" (see page ......
  • Re SSSL Realisations (2002) Ltd ((in Liquidation)) and Another
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 18 January 2006
    ...to the fund'. That followed a series of authorities, and the authority most often cited is a passage from the judgment of Kekewich J in In re Akerman [[1891] 3 Ch 212, 219]: 'A person who owes an estate money, that is to say, who is bound to increase the general mass of the estate by a cont......
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