Mitchell v Forde and Cowie

JurisdictionTrinidad & Tobago
Date1963
Year1963
CourtHigh Court (Trinidad and Tobago)

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6 cases
  • Sandra Fahie v Gloria Wheatley
    • British Virgin Islands
    • High Court (British Virgin Islands)
    • 12 July 2021
    ...meets a prescribed criterion. This position has long been a part of the common law and was summarised in the now well-known case of Mitchell v Forde and Cowie 46 where, at page 412, Fraser J of the High Court of Trinidad and Tobago observed: “The general rule is that whatever is annexed to ......
  • David Gopaul on behalf of HV Holdings Ltd v Vitra Imam Baksh on behalf of the Incorporated Trustees of the Presbyterian Church of Trinidad and Tobago
    • United Kingdom
    • Privy Council
    • 1 February 2012
    ...tenant was no longer possible, either physically or as a matter of law. All this was considered at length in the judgment of Fraser J in Mitchell v Forde (1963) 5 WIR 409 and (in less detail) by the Board in Ramdass v Bahaw-Nanan, 14 December 2009, [2009] UKPC 51. A tenant whose tenancy c......
  • Simon v Pollonais, Baptiste-gilliard and Baptiste et Al
    • Trinidad & Tobago
    • High Court (Trinidad and Tobago)
    • 7 July 2014
    ...possible, either physically or as a matter of law. All this was considered at length in the judgment of Fraser J in Mitchell v. Forde(1963) 5 WIR 409 and (in less detail) by the Board in Ramdass v. Bahaw-Nanan, 14 December 2009, [2009] UKPC 51. A tenant whose tenancy came to an end was ther......
  • Herman Ramdass v Marilyn Bahaw-Nanan
    • United Kingdom
    • Privy Council
    • 14 December 2009
    ...a house at the end of a tenancy was often both physically impossible and unlawful as between landlord and tenant: see Mitchell v Forde (1963) 5 WIR 409, where there is a scholarly discussion by Fraser J of the position of chattel houses under the law of Trinidad and 18 With that background......
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