Verge v Somerville
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 1924 |
| Date | 1924 |
| Court | Privy Council |
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Baddeley and Others (Trustees of the Newtown Trust) v Commissioners of Inland Revenue
...public, that is to say, it must benefit the community or a class of the community. This is, perhaps, best stated inVerge v. Somerville, [1924] A.C. 496, at page 499. Applying the opinion there expressed to the present facts, this trust is confined to the inhabitants of two boroughs-so far s......
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National Tourism Development Authority v Coughlan
...CMRS FOR SPECIAL PURPOSES OF INCOME TAX v PEMSEL 1891 AC 531 TOURIST TRAFFIC ACT 1939 S14 TOURIST TRAFFIC ACT 1952 S5 VERGE v SOMERVILLE 1924 AC 496 NOTTAGE, IN RE (NO 1) 1895 2 CH 649 TRAVEL JUST v CANADA (CANADA REVENUE AGENCY) 2006 FCA 343 CRYSTAL PALACE TRUSTEES v MINISTER OF TOWN & COU......
- Finch v Poplar Borough Council
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Commissioners of Inland Revenue v Baddeley and Others (Trustees of the Newtown Trust)
...which in effect endorsed the opinion of the learned editor of the last edition of Tudor on Charities. More relevant is the case of Verge v. Somerville [1924] A.C. 496. In that case, in which the issue was as to the validity of a gift "to the trustees … of the Repatriation Fund or other simi......
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Using the Wrong Policy Tools: Education, Charity, and Public Benefit
...criterion, those reforms and how theywere implemented reveal some major misunderstandings about how public50036 Verge v. Somerville [1924] A.C. 496.37 Re Scarisbrick [1951] Ch 622; Funnell v. Stewart [1996] 1 All E.R. 715; NevilleEstates v. Madden [1962] Ch 832; Cocks v. Manners [1871] LR 1......
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The limits imposed upon freedom of testation by the boni mores: Lessons from Common Law and Civil Law continental) legal systems
...57 456. See also Caffoor (Trustees of the Abdul Gaffoor Trust) v Commissioner of Income Tax, Colombo [1961] AC 584. In Verge v Somerville [1924] AC 496 a testamentary bequest “for the benefit of New South Wales . . . soldiers” returning from the First World War was, however, regarded as a v......