Whitley v Stumbles
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 27 June 1930 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1930] UKHL J0627-1 |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Date | 27 June 1930 |
[1930] UKHL J0627-1
House of Lords
After hearing Counsel for the Appellant this day, upon the Petition and Appeal of Herbert Whitley of Primley, Paignton, in the County of Devon, praying that the matter of the Order set forth in the Schedule thereto, namely an Order of His Majesty's Court of Appeal, of the 6th of November. 1929, might be reviewed before His Majesty the King, in His Court of Parliament, and that the said Order might be reversed, varied or altered, or that the Petitioner might have such other relief in the premises as to His Majesty the King, in His Court of Parliament, might seem meet; as also upon the printed Case of Alfred Percy Stumbles, lodged in answer to the said Appeal; and Counsel appearing for the Respondent, but not being called upon; and due consideration being had of what was offered for the said Appellant:
It is Ordered and Adjudged, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in the Court of Parliament of His Majesty the King assembled, That the said Order of His Majesty's Court of Appeal, of the 6th day of November, 1929, complained of in the said Appeal, be, and the same is hereby, Affirmed, and that the said Petition and Appeal be, and the same is hereby, dismissed this House: And it is further Ordered, That the Appellant do pay, or cause to be to the said Respondent the Costs incurred by him in respect of the said Appeal, the...
To continue reading
Request your trial
-
National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty v Knipe and Another
...dealing with tenancies, has been interpreted in the strict legal sense of "the subject-matter of the habendum" (Viscount Hailsham in Whitley v Stumbles [1930] AC 544 at 547 and Bracey v Read [1963] Ch 88). In Maunsell v Olins [1975] AC 373, however, the House of Lords held, by a majority, t......
-
Maunsell v Olins
...such a word as "premises". 30 We know that this is a word of conveyancing jargon, meaning, strictly, (and pace Viscount Hailsham in Whitley v. Stumbles [1930] A.C. 544, 546) everything in a deed which precedes the habendum. From this it has passed into the vernacular, at least a quasi-legal......
- Dallhold Estates (UK) Pty Ltd ((in Administration)) v Lindsey Trading Properties Inc.
-
Dallhold Estates (UK) Pty Ltd v Lindsey Trading Properties Inc.
...The word "premises" is capable of a wide range of meanings: reference was made to Maunsell v. Olins [1975] AC 373; to Whitley v. Stumbles [1930] AC 544; and to Bracey v. Read [1963] Ch. 88. Within that wide range, the meaning which it was intended to have for the purposes of the 1987 Act mu......