Re Melton. Milk v Towers

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1918
CourtCourt of Appeal
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8 cases
  • Re SSSL Realisations (2002) Ltd ((in Liquidation)) and Another
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 18 January 2006
    ...they have a right of quasi-retainer pursuant to the rule in Cherry v Boultbee (1839) 4 My & Cr 442 as applied by the Court of Appeal in Re Melton [1918] 1 Ch 37 to insolvency/surety situations and that Group will not receive any dividend." The second is set out at paragraph 2.a. of s......
  • Liverpool (The) (No. 2)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal
    • 28 July 1960
    ......It was pointed out by Lord Justice Scrutton in re Melton (1918 1 Chancery, at page 60) that in considering the rule against double proof technicalities are ......
  • Re Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander Ltd (No 2)
    • United Kingdom
    • Supreme Court
    • 19 October 2011
    ...apply. The active respondents, the administrators of KSF, submit that its application is required by two decisions of the Court of Appeal, In re Melton [1918] 1 Ch 37 and SSSL [2006] Ch 610, and that they were rightly decided. The starting point in understanding and resolving this issue mus......
  • Barclays Bank Ltd v T.O.S.G. Trust Fund Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 12 July 1983
    ...the cases stress that in relation to the rule against double proofs it is the substance and not the form that is to be regarded (see, e.g. Re Melton (1918) 1 Ch. 37 at page 60; Re Oriental Commercial Bank (supra)). When regard is had to what actually happened in the instant case, it is, I t......
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