Singer v Williams

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Year1921
Date1921
CourtHouse of Lords
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75 cases
  • Westminster Bank Executor and Trustee Company (Channel Islands) Ltd v National Bank of Greece S.A.
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 25 June 1969
    ...as being "income arising from securities out of the United Kingdom". The word "securities" in this context was defined by Lord Cave in Singer v. Williams, 1921 1 A.C. at page 49: "The word denotes a debt or claim, the payment of which is in some way secured. The security would generally con......
  • Moloney (Inspector of Taxes) v Aib
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 26 February 1986
    ...CASE 1897 AC 11 REID'S TRUSTEES V CMRS OF INLAND REVENUE 14 TC 512 SUCCESSION ACT 1965 S10 SUCCESSION ACT 1965 S10(3) WILLIAMS V SINGER 1921 1 AC 65, 1920 7 TC 387 Synopsis: REVENUE Income tax Personal representative - Liability - Administration of estate incomplete - Defendant executors r......
  • Rajabali Jumabhoy and Others v Ameerali R Jumabhoy and Others
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 20 May 1998
    ...natural meaning, and in that sense it means investments, including stocks or shares in companies, public or private. In Singer v Williams [1921] 1 AC 41, at p 49, Viscount Cave said: The normal meaning of the word `securities` is not open to doubt. The word denotes a debt or claim the payme......
  • Reid's Trustees v IRC
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Session
    • 20 March 1929
    ...were assessable to tax on the whole interest, under Rule 1 of the Miscellaneous Rules applicable to Schedule D. Williams v. Singer, [1921] 1 A. C. 65, and Baker v. Archer-SheeELR, [1927] A. C. 844, commented The trustees of the late Alexander Reid appealed to the Commissioners for the Gener......
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  • List of cases
    • South Africa
    • Transactions of the Centre for Business Law No. 2011-47, January 2011
    • 1 January 2011
    ...107Ship Strandhill v Walter W Hodder Co Inc) [1926] SCR 680Simon v Philip Morris Incorporated 124 F Supp 2d 46 (2000) Singer v Williams [1921] 1 AC 41 Sir James Smith’s Case (1741) 90 ER 730Sisson v Ruby 497 US 358 (1990)Skageth Food Stores v the Bavois 43 F Supp 109 (1942)Skulptor Vuchetic......
  • Conclusion : reconceptualising the maritime lien and the conflict of laws
    • South Africa
    • Transactions of the Centre for Business Law No. 2011-47, January 2011
    • 1 January 2011
    ...Can We Locate an Identif‌iable Boundary?” (2003) Adelaide Law Review 15.213 See Salmond, op cit n 131, at 272.214 Singer v Williams [1921] 1 AC 41 at 57. See also General Motors Acceptance Corporation Australia v Southbank Traders Pty Ltd (2007) 227 CLR 305 at [20]; L Aitken, “The Equitable......
  • Tax Nexus
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Income Tax Law. Second Edition Part II
    • 16 June 2012
    ...( sub nom Holden v MNR ), [1933] AC 526 (trust taxed on undistributed income whether benef‌iciaries resident or not); Williams v Singer , [1921] 1 AC 65 (HL) (trust not taxed on foreign dividends received for non-resident benef‌iciary); IRC v Gull , [1937] 4 All ER 290 (KB) (English charita......

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