Sammut v Strickland
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 1938 |
| Year | 1938 |
| Date | 1938 |
| Court | Privy Council |
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33 cases
- Wacando v Commonwealth
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Delgamuukw et al. v. British Columbia et al., (1993) 30 B.C.A.C. 1 (CA)
...782 (P.C.), refd to. [para. 369]. Cooper v. Stuart (1889), 14 App. Cas. 286 (P.C.), refd to. [paras. 370, 526]. Sammut v. Strickland, [1938] A.C. 678; [1938] 3 All E.R. 693 (P.C.), refd to. [para. St. Catherines Milling and Lumber Co. v. R. (1887), 13 S.C.R. 577, refd to. [para. 376]. South......
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Madzimbamuto v Lardner-Burke
...also an infringement of the specific principle laid down in such cases as Campbell v. HallENR (1 Cowp. 204) and Sammut v. StricklandELR (1938) A.C. 678, that a right of revocation must be specially reserved or it will not exist. See particularly the remarks of Lord Maugham, reported at p. 7......
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Christian and Others v The Queen
...power to another. So, for example, by the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, Gibraltar was ceded to Great Britain by the Kingdom of Spain. In Sammut v Strickland [1938] AC 678 the Privy Council recognised the possibility of a cession by the people of a territory (in that case, Malta during the Napo......
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3 books & journal articles
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Reasoning with the Foundations of Rules
...of tenures] necessarily applied in so far as … such laws were applicable to the conditions of the new Colony’: Sammut v Strickland [1938] AC 678, 701, quoted in Mabo (1992) 175 CLR 1, 80 (Deane and Gaudron JJ). 136 (1971) 17 FLR 141 (‘Milirrpum’). 137 On the failure of the earlier cases to ......
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ENGLISH STATUTES IN SINGAPORE COURTS
...in Hancock (ed.), Survey of British Commonwealth Affairs (1937) at p. 517. 163 (1875) L.R. 6 P.C. 381. 164 Ibid., at p. 393. 165 [1938] A.C. 678 at p. 701. 166 (1774) 1 Cowp. 204; 98 E.R. 1045. 167“A Birthright and Inheritance”(1962) 1 U. Tas. L.R. 635 at p. 636. 168 The island was not of c......
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Extradition, surrender and state responsibility in the case of the Bahamas
... ... the Act is contradictory to, and a violation of the first, and is, therefore, void." 12 ... Similarly, in Sammut v. Strickland 12a Lord Maugham L. C., delivering the reasons for the judgment of the Privy Council and referring to the judgment in ... ...