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In re Standard Manufacturing Co: CA 1891

Company debentures were expressly excepted from the operation of the Bills of Sales Act (1878) Amendment Act 1882 by section 17 of that Act because they were debentures ‘issued by any mortgage, loan, or other incorporated company’. Nor were debentures bills of sale to which the Act of 1878 applied and company debentures themselves were … Continue reading In re Standard Manufacturing Co: CA 1891

Great Northern Railway Co v Cole Co-Operative Society: 1896

A business created under the Industrial and Provident Societies Acts is not a company in any standard legal sense. Vaughan Williams J distinguished Standard Manufacturing on the basis that the Court of Appeal was not excluding companies generally from these Acts of Parliament, but excluding only companies for whom provision had been made for the … Continue reading Great Northern Railway Co v Cole Co-Operative Society: 1896

N V Slavenburg’s Bank v Intercontinental Natural Resources Ltd: ChD 1980

The Bermudan company defendant had assigned stocks as a security. The security was not registered, and nor did the company have any registration within the UK. It was not the practice of the Registrar of Companies to accept particulars of charges for registration from an overseas company with a place of business in England. Held: … Continue reading N V Slavenburg’s Bank v Intercontinental Natural Resources Ltd: ChD 1980

Online Catering Ltd v Acton and Another: CA 10 Feb 2010

The claimant agreed for the defendant to repair its fleet of vehicles. The defendant, having fees outstanding, entered the claimants’ premises and removed vehicles saying falsely that they were to be repaired, and then refused to return them. The claimants said that they were not bound by the defendants terms saying that they had not … Continue reading Online Catering Ltd v Acton and Another: CA 10 Feb 2010