Cassegrain v Gerard Cassegrain & Company Pty Ltd

JurisdictionAustralia Federal only
JudgeFrench CJ,Hayne,Bell,Gageler JJ.
Judgment Date04 February 2015
Neutral Citation[2015] HCA 2
Docket NumberS141/2014
CourtHigh Court
Date04 February 2015
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  • Construction & Infrastructure – What's News - 28 March 2017
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 30 March 2017
    ...Pty Ltd (2007) 230 CLR 89, 163 [174]; Macquarie Bank Ltd v Sixty Fourth Throne Pty Ltd [1998] 3 VR 133, 143-4; Cassegrain v Cassegrain [2015] HCA 2; (2015) 254 CLR 425, 437-45 discussed and applied. REAL PROPERTY - Torrens system land - Indefeasibility of title - Real estate purchased with ......
  • Fraud and indefeasibility of title
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 10 January 2016
    ...v Gerard Cassegrain & Co Pty Ltd [2015] HCA 2 FACTS Gerard Cassegrain & Co Pty Ltd (Cassegrain) owned several parcels of land in NSW known as the "Dairy Farm". Claude Cassegrain was a director of Cassegrain. In an act of fraud, he transferred title of the Dairy Farm to himself and h......
  • The exceptions to the indefeasibility of Torrens Title
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 3 March 2015
    ...for valuable consideration the Court held that the second transfer should be reversed. Cassegrain v Gerard Cassegrain & Co Pty Ltd [2015] HCA 2. The content of this article is intended to provide a general guide to the subject matter. Specialist advice should be sought about your specif......
  • In brief - Joint tenant unaware of fraudulent conduct of husband
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 9 March 2015
    ...4 February 2015, the High Court delivered judgment in Cassegrain v Gerard Cassegrain & Co Pty Ltd [2015] HCA 2 which considered the statutory fraud exception to indefeasibility. In allowing the appeal in part, the majority of the High Court held that the applicant registered proprietor ......
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