Sharp (Official Receiver) v Jackson and Others

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date15 June 1899
Judgment citation (vLex)[1899] UKHL J0615-1
CourtHouse of Lords
Date15 June 1899

[1899] UKHL J0615-1

House of Lords

Sharp (Official Receiver)
and
Jackson and Others.
1

After hearing Counsel for the Appellant this day upon the Petition and Appeal of Luke Jesson Sharp, the Official Receiver and Trustee of the property of Courtenay Connell Prance and George Henry Garrard, Bankrupts, praying, That the matter of the Orders and Judgment set forth in the Schedule thereto, namely, an Order of Her Majesty's Court of Appeal, of the 13th of May 1897; and also a Judgment and Order of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice, of the 6th of March 1897, might be reviewed before Her Majesty the Queen in Her Court of Parliament, and...

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26 cases
  • Peat v Gresham Trust Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 27 March 1934
    ... ... expressed in your Lordships' House in the case of Sharp v. Jackson, 1899, A.C. 419, and in particular with the ... ...
  • Re Lehman Brothers International (Europe), Lomas v Rab Market Cycles (Master) Fund Ltd)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 6 November 2009
    ...in equity by the trustee to the life tenant constituted an “equitable debt” which was capable of being attached. Similarly in Sharp v Jackson [1899] AC 419 the House of Lords (following earlier decisions in the Court of Appeal) held that transfers of property to beneficiaries under a trust ......
  • Re Lehman Brothers International (Europe) ((in Administration)) (No 2)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • Invalid date
    ...[1970] AC 567; [1968] 3 WLR 1097; [1968] 3 All ER 651, HL(E) Savoy Hotel, In re [1981] Ch 351; [1981] 3 WLR 441; [1981] 3 All ER 646 Sharp v Jackson [1899] AC 419, HL(E) Sinclair v Wilson (1855) 20 Beav 324 T & N Ltd, In re [2005] EWHC 2870 (Ch); [2006] 1 WLR 1728; [2006] 3 All ER 697; ......
  • DBS Bank Ltd v Tam Chee Chong
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 16 September 2011
    ...324 (folld) Progen Engineering Pte Ltd, Liquidators of v Progen Holdings Ltd [2010] 4 SLR 1089 (refd) Sharp (Official Receiver) v Jackson [1899] AC 419 (refd) Sweetmart Garment Works Ltd (in liquidation) , Re [2008] 2 HKLRD 92 (refd) Watt or Thomas v Thomas [1947] AC 484 (refd) Bankruptcy A......
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1 books & journal articles
  • Winding Up
    • Jamaica
    • Corporate Business Principles. A Guide to the Jamaica Companies Act
    • 18 February 2021
    ...of any execution against goods or lands of the company, or attachment to any debt due to the company, 128 unless: 119. Sharp v Jackson [1899], AC 419. 120. Companies Act 2004, s 312(1). 121. Companies Act 2004, s 313(1) amended by the Security Interest in Personal Property Act 2013 to inclu......