The Weekly Law Reports
[1955] 2 WLR 672
[COURT OF APPEAL.]
MORELLE LD. v. WAKELING AND ANOTHER.
[Plaint No. K. 1224.]
1955 Feb. 14,
15,
16;
March 3.
March 3.
Evershed M.R., Denning, Jenkins, Morris and Romer L.JJ.
Mortmain
— Lease
— Foreign company
— Transfer of registered land
— Company registered as proprietors of leasehold interest in land in United Kingdom
— No licence in mortmain obtained from Crown
— No compliance with Companies Acts requirements for holding land
— Forfeiture to Crown from date of registration of transfer
— Land registration- Practice
— Leasehold possessory title
— Validity of registration
— Effect of non-compliance with statutory forms
— Discretion of registrar
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Magna Carta, 1225 (9 Hen. 3, c. 36)
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Statute De Religiosis Viris, 1279 (7 Edw. 1)
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Charitable Uses Act, 1735 (9 Geo. 2, c. 36)
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Mortmain and Charitable Uses Act, 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 42), ss. 1 (1) (2), 10
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Mortmain and Charitable 673Uses Act, 1891 (54 & 55 Vict. c. 73), s. 3
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Land Registration Act, 1925 (15 Geo. 5, c. 21), ss. 23 (1), 80, 144 (1)
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Land Registration Rules, 1925 (S.R. & O., 1925, No. 1093/L.28), rr. 74, 121, 123, 322
— Form 35.
Judicial Precedent
— Court of Appeal decision
— Per incuriamn
— Mortmain
— Inadequate argument
— Interested party not represented. Statute
— Construction
— Consolidating Act
— To be construed against background of previous law
— Mortmain. Practice and Procedure
— Parties
— Joinder
— Crown
— Amicus curiae
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R.S.C., Ord. 16, r. 11.