The court considered the liability for rates of a company’s receiver: ‘The argument that, because a receiver and manager is appointed, then ipso facto the company or persons carrying on business are turned out, is neither reasonable nor plausible. It is quite conceivable that these receivers might have performed all their duties without even seeing this property. They were to carry on business: they could have appointed a manager to carry on that business under them, to take his instructions from them. It might never be necessary for them to go near the property at all.’
Judges:
Rigby LJ
Citations:
[1896] 2 Ch 633
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Ratford v Northavon District Council CA 1986
The reality of the agency of a receiver is reflected in the continuity, after the appointment of receivers, of the rateable occupation of the mortgagor through the agency of the receivers. The possession of an agent is to be attributed to that of . .
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Rating
Updated: 20 August 2022; Ref: scu.198324
