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Title Law and accounting : pre-1889 British legal cases / [edited by] Jean Margo Reid
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (201 pages)
Series Routledge Library Editions: Accounting
Routledge library editions. Accounting.
Contents Cover; Law and Accounting; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Introduction; Burnes v. Pennell, 9 English Reports 1181 (1849), [House of Lords]; Ex parte Spaceman, 41 English Reports 1228 (1849), [Lord Chancellor-Court of Appeal]; Ex parte Holme, 22 L.J. Ch. 226 (1852), [Lord Chancellor-Court of Appeal]; Ex parte Brockwell, 26 L.J. Ch. 855 (1857), [Vice Chancellor-Chancery]; Henry v. The Great Northern Railway Company, 4 Kay & John. 1 (1857), [Vice Chancellor-Chancery]
Corry v. The Londonderry and Enniskillen Railway Company, 29 Beav. 263 (1860), [Master of the Rolls-Chancery]Bale v. Cleland, 4 F. & F. 117 (1864), [Civil Court]; MacDougall v. Jersey Imperial Hotel Co., Limited, 2 Hem. & M. 528 (1864), [Vice Chancellor-Chancery]; Binney v. The Ince Hall Coal and Cannel Company, 35 L.J. Ch. 363 (1866), [Vice Chancellor-Chancery]; Bloxam v. Metropolitan Railway Company, L.R. 3 Ch. App. 337 (1868), [Lord Chancellor-Court of Appeal]; Rishton v. Grissell, L.R. 5 Eq. 326 (1868), [Vice Chancel-lor-Chancery]
Turquand v. Marshall, L.R. 6 Eq. 112 (1868), [Master of the Rolls-Chancery] 20 L.T. 766 (1869), [Lord Chancellor-Court of Appeal]; Stringer's Case, 20 L.T. 553 (1869), [Vice Chancellor-Chancery]; L.R. 4 Ch. App. 475 (1869), [Lord Justices-Court of Appeal]; Rance's Case, L.R. 6 Ch. App. 104 (1870), [Lord Justices-Court of Appeal]; Mills v. Northern Railway of Buenos Ayrer Company, L.R. 5 Ch. App. 621 (1870), [Lord Chancellor-Court of Appeal]; Salisbury v. Metropolitan Railway Company (1), 20 L.T. 72 (1869), [Vice Chancellor-Chancery]
Salisbury v. Metropolitan Railway Company (2), 22 L.T. 839 (1870), [Vice Chancellor-Chancery]Bardwell v. Sheffield Waterworks Company, L.R. 14 Eq. 517 (1872), [Vice Chancellor-Chancery]; Lord Rokeby v. Elliot, 9 L.R. Ch. 685 (1878), [Chancery]; Davison v. Gillies, 16 L.R. Ch. 344, @ 347n. (1879), [Master of the Rolls-Chancery]; Dent v. The London Tramways Company (Limited), 16 L.R. Ch. 344 (1881), [Master of the Rolls-Chancery]; City of Glascow Bank v. Mackinnon, 9 Court Session Cases, 4th Series, 535 (1882), [Court of Sessions, Scot.]
Flitcrcfts Case, 21 L.R. Ch. 519 (1882), [Court of Appeal]In re Alexandra Palcue Company, 21 L.R. Ch. 149 (1882), [Chancery]; Lambert v. The Neuchatel Asphalte Company (Limited), 51 L.J. Ch. 882 (1882), [Vice Chancellor-Chancery]; In re Frank Mills Mining Company, L.R. 23 Ch. 52 (1883), [Court of Appeal]; In re Oxford Benefit Building and Investment Society, 35 L.R. Ch. 502 (1886), [Chancery]; Midland Land and Investment Corporation, Limited, Unreported (shorthand reporters notes in Palmer, Company Precedents, 1912, pp. 904-906), (1886), [Chancery]
Summary This book contains edited versions of thirty British legal cases involving accounting issues decided from 1849-1888. These cases are a valuable source of information about the development of accounting principles and practices in nineteenth-century Great Britain. The thirty cases show that the court decisions involved a rich variety of accounting issues. In some cases courts upset private contractual stipulations regarding accounting and dividend matters. In others, management was held to have used incorrect principles in computing profits. Whether or not a contract or management decision w
Notes Print version originally published: New York : Garland Pub.,1986
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Leeds Estate, Building and Investment Company v. Shepherd, 36 L.R. Ch. 787 (1887), [Chancery]
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 31, 2014)
Subject Accounting -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain -- Cases
LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Accounting -- Law and legislation
Great Britain
Genre/Form Electronic books
Trials, litigation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Reid, Jean Margo
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