Yeap Cheah Neo v Ong Cheng Neo
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 1865 |
| Year | 1865 |
| Date | 1865 |
| Court | Privy Council |
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27 cases
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Leong v Chye
... ... Principle in Yeap Cheah Neo v. Ong Cheng Neo ( 1875 ) L.R. 6 P.C. 381 , at 393 applied ... Further, in so far ... ...
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Wong, Wen-Young v (1) Grand View Private Trust Company Ltd, (2) Transglobe Private Trust Company Ltd
...country shall prevail.” 874 This passage ignores the principle, supported by Privy Council authority ( Yeap Cheah Neo v Ong Cheng Neo (1875) LR 6 PC 381 at 393-394) that where the conquest is so complete that the territory is de facto a settled one, English law is received on the same basis......
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4 books & journal articles
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Religious charitable status and public benefit in Australia.
...[1948] 1 Ch 340, 345 (Lord Greene MR). Contra Re Michel's Trust (1860) 28 Beav 39; 54 ER 280. (17) Yeap Cheah Neo v Ong Cheng Neo (1875) LR 6 PC 381, 396 (Lord Smith for Lords Colvile, Peacock, Smith and Collier). On Chinese religious practices generally, see Hubert Picarda, The Law and Pra......
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW IN SINGAPORE: A GENERAL OVERVIEW1
...— A Century of Uncertainty”, chapters 1 and 2 respectively in A.J. Harding (Ed.), The Common Law in Singapore and Malaysia (1985). 4 (1875) L.R. 6 P.C. 381 at p. 394. 5 See H. Chan, supra, at pp. 7—13. 6 That is, the law of England as at the 27th November 1826. Note that this general recept......
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ENGLISH STATUTES IN SINGAPORE COURTS
...92 12 & 13 Vic. c.96. 93 29 & 30 Vic. c.115. 94 Ordinance No. 5 of 1868. The earlier Act (No. 30 of 1867) had been disallowed. 95 (1875) L.R. 6 P.C. 381 and sub nom. Ong Cheng Neo v. Yeap Cheah Neo(1875) 1 Ky. 337. The original application for special leave (1874) L.R. 5 P.C. 89 was indexed......
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OF GENERALITY AND SPECIFICITY — A SUGGESTED APPROACH TOWARD THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN AUTOCHTHONOUS SINGAPORE LEGAL SYSTEM
...Malim, (1867) W.O.C. 30; Choa Choon Neoh v. Spottiswoode, (1869) 1 Ky. 216, at p. 221; and Yeap Cheah Neoh & Ors. v. Ong Cheng Neo, (1875) L.R. 6 P.C, 381. See, also, my article, “Of ‘Cut-Off Dates and Domination: Some Problematic Aspects of the General Reception of English Law in Singapore......