Vacuum Oil Company Pty Ltd v Wiltshire
| Jurisdiction | Australia Federal only |
| Neutral Citation | [1945] HCA 37,1945-1210 HCA A |
| Date | 1945 |
| Year | 1945 |
| Court | High Court |
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71 cases
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Equity Trust (Jersey) Ltd v Halabi (in his capacity as Executor of the Estate of the late Madam Intisar Nouri)
...in the cases referred to above, have long been accepted as part of Australian law: see Vacuum Oil Co Pty Ltd v Wiltshire [1945] HCA 7; (1945) 72 CLR 319. 97 In a series of further decisions, the High Court and other Australian courts have considered whether the right of indemnity confers on......
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Commonwealth of Australia(Plaintiff) v Davis Samuel Pty Ltd ACN 083 081 985 (First Defendant)
...case, be subrogated to the trustee's rights: In re Raybould; Raybould v Turner [1900] 1 Ch 199; Vacuum Oil Company Pty Ltd v Wiltshire [1945] HCA 37; (1945) 72 CLR 319 at 328, 335–336. 18 It is also true that a creditor may contract on terms that limit the prima facie unlimited personal lia......
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3 firm's commentaries
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Australian High Court Finds Liquidators Are Not Required To Set Aside Money For Pre-Assessed Tax Liabilities
...may need to seek the direction of the Court on these questions in appropriate cases. Footnote 1 Vacuum Oil Co Pty Ltd v Wiltshire (1945) 72 CLR 319 at 335-336; [1945] HCA 37; Octavo Investments Pty Ltd v Knight (1979) 144 CLR 360 at 367; [1979] HCA 61; Chief Commissioner of Stamp Duties (NS......
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Can You "Trust" A Trustee? ' Limitation Of Trustee Liability Clauses In Construction Contracts
...any form of construction contract. Footnotes 1 Ayerst v C&K (Construction) Ltd [1976] AC 167, 177. 2 Vaccum Oil Co Pty Ltd v Wiltshire (1945) 72 CLR 319, 3 National Trustee's Executors & Agency Co of Australasia Ltd v Barnes (1941) 64 CLR 268. 4 Trustee Act 1925 (NSW) s 59(4). The content o......
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Can You "Trust" A Trustee? ' Limitation Of Trustee Liability Clauses In Construction Contracts
...any form of construction contract. Footnotes 1 Ayerst v C&K (Construction) Ltd [1976] AC 167, 177. 2 Vaccum Oil Co Pty Ltd v Wiltshire (1945) 72 CLR 319, 3 National Trustee's Executors & Agency Co of Australasia Ltd v Barnes (1941) 64 CLR 268. 4 Trustee Act 1925 (NSW) s 59(4). The content o......
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THE CASE AGAINST THE EQUITABLE LIEN.
...(Gordon J) ('Carter Holt Harvey Woodproducts'). The lien also applies to executors of wills: see Vacuum Oil Co Pty Ltd v Wiltshire (1945) 72 CLR 319, 324 (Latham (40) See Octavo Investments (n 39) 367 (Stephen, Mason, Aickin and Wilson JJ); Carter Holt Harvey Woodproducts (n 39) [24] (Kiefe......
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CARTER HOLT HARVEY WOODPRODUCTS AUSTRALIA PTY. LTD. V. COMMONWEALTH: THE TRUE NATURE OF THE TRUSTEE'S RIGHT OF INDEMNITY.
...Re The Exhall Coal Co (Ltd) (1866) 35 Beav 449; 55 ER 970, 971 (Lord Romilly MR) ('first charge'); Vacuum Oil Co Pty Ltd v Wiltshire (1945) 72 CLR 319, 335 (Dixon J) ('lien'); Octavo (n 28) 367 (Stephen, Mason, Aickin and Wilson JJ) ('charge or right of (103) D'Angelo (n 2) 178 [4.63], citi......
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THE INTERSECTION OF COMPANIES AND TRUSTS.
...March 2019 (Report, 28 May 2019) , archived at . (6) Harmer Report (n 3). (7) See, eg, Octavo (n 2); Vacuum Oil Co Pty Ltd v Wiltshire (1945) 72 CLR 319 (Vacuum Oil'); ElecNet (Aust) Pty Ltd v Federal Commissioner of Taxation (2016) 259 CLR 73 CElecNef). See also the other cases referred to......