River Wear Commissioners v Adamson and Others

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1876
Year1876
CourtHouse of Lords

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  • Yarl's Wood Immigration Ltd and Others v Bedfordshire Police Authority
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 30 September 2008
    ... ... eg Ayr Harbour Trustees v OswaldELR (1883) 8 App Cas 623 ; Commissioners of Crown Lands v PageELR [1960] 2 QB 274 ... The duty of the police to ... general context of the statute, in the words of Lord Blackburn in River Wear Commissioners v AdamsonELR (1877) 2 App Cas 743 at 764, their ... ...
  • Yarl's Wood Immigration Ltd and Others v Bedfordshire Police Authority
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 23 October 2009
    ...from or destruction of that public institution or property therein. 83 So, using Lord Blackburn's famous phraseology in River Wear Commissioners v Adamson 6 the “ordinary signification” of the words “any person” in the 1886 Act is exactly that. Thus a person or entity with public law duties......
  • Gayler and Pope Ltd v Davies & Son
    • United Kingdom
    • King's Bench Division
    • Invalid date
    ... ... 17 considered ... Dictum of Lord Blackburn in River Wear Commissioners v. Adamson ( 1877 ) 2 App. Cas ... ...
  • B.P. EXPLORATION OPERATING Company Ltd Pursuers (Appellants) against CHEVRON TRANSPORT (SCOTLAND) Defenders (Respondents)
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 18 October 2001
    ...indications as there are seem to me to support the view that by the term "owner" is meant the actual owner, the proprietor. In River Wear Commissioners v Adamson (1877) LR 2 HL 743 mention was made of the difficulty for the undertakers of the harbour of investigating whom to pursue when dam......
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  • A New Thing Under the Sun? The Interpretation of Contract and the ICS Decision
    • United Kingdom
    • Edinburgh University Press Edinburgh Law Review No. , September 2008
    • 1 September 2008
    ...that Lord Blackburn was not speaking only of statutory interpretation when in River Wear Commissioners v Adamson in 1877 he said:44(1877) 2 App Cas 743 at My Lords, it is of great importance that those principles should be ascertained; and I shall therefore state, as precisely as I can, wha......