Re Lee, Behrens & Company Ltd

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CourtChancery Division
Year1932
Date1932

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  • Rolled Steel Products (Holdings) Ltd v British Steel Corporation
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 11 June 1984
    ...the three tests of ultra vires suggested by Eve J. in an often cited passage in his judgment in In Re Lee Behrens & Co. Ltd. (1932) 2 Ch. 46 at page 51, should, in my opinion, now be recognised as being of no assistance, and indeed positively misleading, when the relevant question is w......
  • Re Horsley & Weight Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 30 July 1980
    ...and Mr. Frank Horsley as the only shareholders. 19 Mr. Evans-Lombe, relying principally on the judgment of Mr. Justice Eve in re Lee Behrens & Co., (1932) 2 Chancery, 46, submits that, properly construed, paragraph (0) should be read as conferring merely an ancillary power. In. that ca......
  • Charterbridge Corporation Ltd v Lloyds Bank Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • Invalid date
    ... ... [1964 C. No. 4000] ... 1968 Oct. 29, ... Nov. 1, ... Pennycuick J ... Company - Powers - Memorandum of association - Objects clause - “To secure or guarantee by mortgage” ... In re Lee, Behrens & Co. Ltd. [ 1932 ] 2 Ch. 46 distinguished ... In re David Payne & Co. Ltd., ... ...
  • Prospect Properties Ltd ((in Liquidation)) v McNeill
    • Cayman Islands
    • Grand Court (Cayman Islands)
    • 3 December 1990
    ...(19) Lee v. Neuchatel Asphalte Co.ELR(1889), 41 Ch. D. 1; [1986–90] All E.R. Rep 947, considered. (20) Lee, Behrens & Co. Ltd., In re, [1932] 2 Ch. 46; [1932] All E.R. Rep. 889, followed. (21) Lubbock v. British Bank of S. America, [1892] 2 Ch. 198, considered. (22) Mammoth Copperopolis of ......
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3 books & journal articles
  • Ultra vires-leerstuk : hoofstuk 6
    • South Africa
    • Sabinet Transactions of the Centre for Business Law No. 2008-43, January 2008
    • 1 January 2008
    ...’n maatskappy verbied 168 Ar tikel 161(2) (a) en (b).169 Ar tikel 161(3). Hierdeur word die beslissing van Re Lee Behrens & Co Ltd [1932] 2 Ch 46 dus uitdruklik omvergewerp.170 Ar tikel 117(2).171 Ar tikel 162(1).172 Byvoorbeeld die voordele wat aan ’n maatskappy toegestaan deur die woord “......
  • Directors' fiduciary duties under our future company-law regime
    • South Africa
    • Juta South Africa Mercantile Law Journal No. , May 2019
    • 25 May 2019
    ...Railway Company (1883) 23 ChD 654; Tomkinson v South-Eastern Railway Company (1887) 35 ChD 675; In re Lee, Behrens & Company, Limited [1932] 2 Ch 46; Parke v Daily News Ltd [1962] Ch 927. See also In re W & M Roith Ltd (1967) 1 WLR 432 where the Court held that the payment of a pension to a......
  • ULTRA VIRES AND CORPORATE CAPACITY IN SINGAPORE
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 1989, December - January 1989
    • 1 December 1989
    ...6 HL Cas 401 (House of Lords); Woodland Development Sdn Bhd v Chartered Bank[1986] 1 MLJ 84, 88—89 (High Court, Malaysia). 32. [1932] 2 Ch 46 (High Court, England). 33. [1967] 1 All ER 427 (High Court, England). 34. See Rosemary Simmons Memorial Housing Association Ltd v United Dominions Tr......