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The Cambridge Law Journal
ISSN: 0008-1973

EISSN: 1469-2139

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In this preliminary article it is not intended to deal with the maxim res ipsa loquitur in its manifold ramifications but to consider its origin and development, the requirements for its application, some reasons for its complexities, and its broad effect in English law.

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Volume 11 - March 1951

Research Article

A Ramble with Res Ipsa Loquitur

Notes on Recent Cases

Charitable Trust—Education—Construction—Ejusdem Generis Rule—Main Object

Meeting Report

International Congress on Private Law

Notes on Recent Cases

Charitable Purposes—Main and Ancillary Purposes Distinguished—Gift Over and Perpetuity Rule

Conflict of Laws—Custodian of Enemy Property—Crown Servants—Crown Immunity from Income Tax: Conflict of Laws—Jurisdiction—Foreign Order Alien Defendant Resident Abroad—Effect

Administration—Payments by Executors Under Mistake of Law—Equitable Right in Personam

Charitable Trust—Public Element—Poverty Cases

Bills of Sale—Attempted Gift of Furniture by Husband to Wife While Co-Habiting with her Before Marriage—Validity of Gift—Bills of Sale Act, 1878.

Conflict of Laws—Marriage—Celebrated Abroad—Formally Invalid—Subsequent Validation—Retroactive Effect Upon Parties Resident and Domiciled in England.

Conflict of Laws—Foreign Requisitioning Decree—Property in England—Effect—Treaty of Peace with Hungary—Interpretation

Conflict of Laws—Infant—Custody—Previous Order of Foreign Court—Effect

Charitable Trust—Criterion of Public Benefit

Contract—Entire Contract—Doctrine of Substantial Performance

Charitable Trust—Public Element—Common Employment—Educational Trust—Poverty Cases

Contract—Bailment—Conditions Excluding Liability—Fundamental Breach—Misdelivery

Contract—Penalty—Hire Purchase—Full Balance of Unpaid Instalments Payable on Determination

Conversion—Estoppel—Conversion by Agent After Termination of Authority—Liability of Third Party Purchaser

Contract—Frustration—Uncontemplated Turn of Events

Conflict of Laws—Petition for Nullity—Polygamous form of Marriage—Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1949, S. 1 (1) and (2)

Contract—Promissory Estoppel—Forbearance as Consideration

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Volume 11 - March 1951

Research Article

Notes on Recent Cases

Meeting Report

Notes on Recent Cases