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..... and other infrastructure of the industrial revolution. other fields of law that bennion may have had in mind include patents, bankruptcy, rating and income tax. until well into the 20th century acts of parliament were expressed in much plainer language than they are today, and in all the fields which i have instanced successive generations of judges ..... to be valued in a case where the scheme had brought about an alteration of the interest itself (in that case by giving freeholders the right to terminate agricultural tenancies). on one reading of the speeches there was a significant extension of the principle in waters v welsh development authority [2004] ukhl 19, [2004] 1 ..... date). the last two sentences of the paragraph show that. but if planning permission is to be assumed (say, for residential development of 70-plus acres of agricultural land on the edge of a conurbation, as in wilson v liverpool corporation [1971] 1 wlr 302) why should it be incredible that parliament did not intend .....
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..... confusion of thought, since if the trader had been convicted of the more serious offence under section 96 of the singapore income tax act it would have been guilty of deliberate and dishonest tax evasion and could not have been described as an innocent party. 181. in that situation the law would not permit the ..... stojevic. payment under the letters of credit was obtained by the presentation of false documents certifying the existence in distant warehouses of non-existent stocks of agricultural produce. these payments were promptly passed on to bcl, which initially met its liabilities to kb, so building up its confidence (kb was also found ..... management had fraudulently continued an insurance company in business past its point of insolvency and systematically looted it of its most profitable and least risky business and income, aggravating its insolvency. cenco was distinguished on various grounds: first, as decided under illinois law, whereas the issue in schacht arose under federal law and .....
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