Mitchell v Cowie
| Jurisdiction | Trinidad & Tobago |
| Date | 1964 |
| Court | Court of Appeal (Trinidad and Tobago) |
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34 cases
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Bain v Econo Car Rentals Ltd
...will turn on the degree and object of annexation. As stated by Blackburn J. in Holland v. Hodgson [1872] L.R. 7 CP 328 and cited in Mitchell v. Cowie (1964) 7 W.I.R. 118 CA at page 121: “There is no doubt that the general maxim of the law is that what is annexed to the land becomes part of ......
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Makhoul v Foster and Lockhart
...v. Morris [1997] 1 All E.R. 513; Holland and another v. Hodgson and another [1872] L.R. 7 CP 328; Reid v. Smith [1905] 3 C.L.R. 656; Mitchell v. Cowie (1964) 7 WIR 118.] which analyzed the matters to be addressed in determining whether a structure was (or was not) a fixture, the decisive fa......
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Samuel v Joseph; Gerald Third Party
...absence of the Rampersad's case supra I would have been prepared to hold that on the basis of the decision of the Court of Appeal in Mitchell v. Cowie (1964) 7 W.I.R. 118, that the House was a fixture and consequently in the particular or special circumstances of this case, it passed with t......
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Daphne Gumbs v Administrator of the Estate of James Fahie (Deceased)
...the status of the buildings with respect to the land on which they stand. They fall within guideline 4 set out by Sir Hugh Wooding CJ in Mitchell v Cowie (1964) 7 W.I.R. 118, at page 119. They are fixtures which are so attached to the land that the form a part of the land. This brings into......
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2 books & journal articles
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The 'chattel-house' case: a reading in hegelian jurisprudence
...fixture, as a term of general application, is a solecism - a contradiction in words." Teaff v. Hewitt, 1 Ohio St. 511, 524 (1853). 4 (1964) 7 W.I.R. 118. not only the uncompleted house but also the second house, the construction of which had not yet been started. Subsequently, Doris Forde w......
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Chattel houses and mobile homes; fixtures in Caribbean and Canadian Law
...than accruing to the plaintiff under foreclosure proceedings against the land. The degree of annexation was described as follows: 14 12 (1964)7 W.I.R 118 (Trinidad & Tobago C.A.) at 122 {per Wooding C.J.). 13 (1992)2 Alta L.R. (3d) 65 (Q.B. in Chambers). 14 Ibid. at 67 ( per Master Waller).......