White v White

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1949
Year1949
CourtCourt of Appeal
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8 cases
  • Lissack v Lissack
    • United Kingdom
    • Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division
    • Invalid date
  • Williams v Williams
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 27 June 1963
    ...the presumption that a man intends the natural and probable consequences of his acts, a matter to which I must return. 23 White v. White [1950] P. 39 is an important case. There it was held, as the headnote states, that the mere fact that the respondent was insane is no defence. The Commiss......
  • Dunnage v Randall
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 2 July 2015
    ...to understand the nature and consequences of the act…that was an act for which he would be civilly or criminally responsible…" 36 In White v White [1949] 2 All ER 339 (" White") the court allowed the husband's appeal against the dismissal of his petition for divorce based on the cruelty of ......
  • Wenden v. Trikha et al., (1991) 116 A.R. 81 (QB)
    • Canada
    • Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta (Canada)
    • 27 June 1991
    ...(C.A.), refd to. [para. 103]. Beal v. Beal (1982), 52 N.S.R.(2d) 550; 106 A.P.R. 550 (T.D.), refd to. [para. 103]. White v. White, [1949] 2 All E.R. 339 (C.A.), refd to. [para. Breunig v. American Family Insurance Co. (1970), 173 N.W. 2d 619 (Wis. S.C.), refd to. [para. 109]. Slattery v. Ha......
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4 books & journal articles
  • THE STANDARD OF CARE FOR CHILDREN ENGAGED IN ADULT ACTIVITIES: NOT EXACTLY CHILD'S PLAY.
    • Canada
    • 1 December 2020
    ...Smith Transport Ltd, [1946] 4 DLR 721 at 728, [1946] OR 798 (CA); Fiala v Cechmanek, 2001 ABCA 169 at para 49. But see White v White, [1949] 2 All ER 339 at 351, [1950] P 39 (CA) [White], Denning LJ (stating that even a person whose mental disability made him or her incapable of forming an ......
  • Is Corrective Justice Subsidiary to Distributive Justice? Which Answer Better Captures The Meaning of Tort Law Practice?
    • Ireland
    • Trinity College Law Review No. X-2007, January 2007
    • 1 January 2007
    ...'judicial extension' reveals the pragmatic approach which effectively enlarged the boundaries of tort law practice. 42 White v White [1949] 2 All ER 339. 2007] Is Corrective Justice Subsidiary to Distributive Justice? 57 Weinrib's striving for coherence in tort law is really a quest for doc......
  • Tort Law for Cynics
    • United Kingdom
    • The Modern Law Review No. 77-5, September 2014
    • 1 September 2014
    ...two anonymous referees for their helpful comments.Their comments have led to many changes, large and small, to the essay.1White vWhite, [1950] P 39, 58–59. Denning held on to these views. See Spartan Steel vMartin &Co [1973] 1 QB 27, 37; Lamb vCamden London Borough Council [1981] 1 QB 625, ......
  • The Success of American Communes.
    • United States
    • Southern Economic Journal Vol. 67 No. 1, July 2000
    • 1 July 2000
    ...work; however, he argued that "free of such insanities" (i.e., religious beliefs), communism would achieve much greater success (Bester 1950, p. 39). Even as late as 1980, two Shaker villages still remained active, one at Canterbury, New Hampshire, and the other at Sabbath-day Lake, Maine, ......

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