Sifton v Sifton
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 1938 |
| Date | 1938 |
| Year | 1938 |
| Court | Privy Council |
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41 cases
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Mackessy v Fitzgibbon
...ACT 1965 BETWEEN MAUREEN MACKESSY PLAINTIFF AND MARK FITZGIBBON, CORA MULLANE AND WILLIAM FITZGIBBON DEFENDANTS Citations: SIFTON V SIFTON 1938 AC 656 HENNESSY, IN RE 98 ILTR 39 MOFFAT V MCCLEARY 1923 1 IR 16 MOTHERWAY V COGHLAN 98 ILTR 134 SUCCESSION ACT 1965 Synopsis: WILL Construction ......
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Fraser v Canterbury Diocesan Board of Finance (No 2)
...the preceding vested estate was to determine" (Lord Cranworth in Clavering v Ellison (1859) 7 HLC 707, 725, cited in Sifton v Sifton [1938] AC 656, 670, and in Clayton v Ramsden [1943] AC 320, 326). As Mr Nugee put it in his written submissions, reverter is an event, not a process (and if ......
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(1) Michael Rittson-Thomas v Oxfordshire County Council
...the preceding vested estate was to determine” (Lord Cranworth in Clavering v Ellison (1859) 7 HLCas 707, 725, cited in Sifton v Sifton [1938] AC 656, 670, and in Clayton v Ramsden [1943] AC 320, 326). As Mr Nugee put it in his written submissions, reverter is an event, not a process (and if......
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Re Neeld, decd
...word "obscurity") any more than there is obscurity or unco rtainty in expression in the much debated phrase in Sifton v. Sifton, 1938 Appeal Cases, p. 656, "reside in Canada". In such cases the language is plain and the solo question is whether it is sufficiently precise in operation. To th......
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Table of Cases
...255 Siewert v Seward, [1975] 3 WWR 584, 54 DLR (3d) 161 (Alta CA).................. 135 Sifton v Sifton, [1938] AC 656 (PC) ..................................................................... 54 Silaschi v 1054473 Ontario Ltd (2000), 48 OR (3d) 313, 186 DLR (4th) 339 (CA) ......................
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Title to Land
...2002, c 168, s 19; Perpetuities Act , RSNWT 1988, c P-3, s 16. 74 See Eastern Trust Co v McTague (1963), 39 DLR (2d) 743 (PEI SC AD). 75 [1938] AC 656 (PC). See also Re McColgan , [1969] 2 OR 152, 4 DLR (3d) 572. 76 [1952] Ch 743 (CA). Title to L and 55 subsequent void if its terms are such......
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The construction of conditions attaching to gifts in wills
...42[2007] I.E.H.C. 228, at para. 7. See Moffat v. M’Cleary [1923] 1 I.R. 16; Sifton v. Sifton [1938] A.C. 656; Re Coughlan, [1963] I.R. 246; In re Hennessy (1963) 98 I.L.T.R. 39; Mackessy v. Fitzgibbon [1993] 1 I.R. 520. 43[1993] 1 I.R. 520. 44 See In re Hennessy (1963) 98 I.L.T.R. 39 at 45 ......