Worthing v Rowell and Muston Pty Ltd

JurisdictionAustralia Federal only
Neutral Citation[1970] HCA 19,1970-0626 HCA B
Date1970
Year1970
CourtHigh Court
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20 cases
  • Svikart v Stewart
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • Invalid date
  • JT International SA v Commonwealth of Australia
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 5 October 2012
    ... [2001] HCA 7. 145 Thereby assuming there is an inherent or implied legislative power to take private property for public use: Worthing v Rowell and Muston Pty Ltd (1970) 123 CLR 89 at 99–100; [1970] HCA 19. 146 (1979) 142 CLR 397 at 408; [1979] HCA 47. 147 Rotunda and Nowak, Treatise on ......
  • Commonwealth v Tasmania (The Tasmanian Dam Case)
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • Invalid date
  • Pape v Commissioner of Taxation
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 7 July 2009
    ...of moneys appropriated by the legislature and discussed earlier in these reasons. There is here, as Windeyer J put it in Worthing v Rowell and Muston Pty Ltd271, the expression of ‘a large and general idea’. He added 272: ‘[P]ublic purposes are not necessarily purposes for which the Parliam......
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1 books & journal articles
  • The Legal Personality of the Commonwealth of Australia
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Federal Law Review No. 47-1, March 2019
    • 1 March 2019
    ...of the Common-wealth of Australia to exercise its common law rights to fence its own land’.18. Worthing v Rowell and Muston Pty Ltd (1970) 123 CLR 89, 127 (Windeyer J), saying that the Com-monwealth could ‘accept a gift from a landowner by his deed or will of land’ and ‘could become by gift......

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