1st Edition

Law and Accounting (RLE Accounting) Pre-1889 British Legal Cases

Edited By Jean Reid Copyright 2014
200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction. 1. Burnes v. Pennell (1949) 2. Ex parte Spackman (1849) 3. Ex parte Holme (1852) 4. Ex parte Brockwell (1857) 5. Henry v. The Great Norther Railway Company (1857) 6. Corry v. The London derry and Enniskillen Railway Company (1860) 7. Bale v. Cleland (1864) 8. MacDougall v. Jersey Imperial Hotel Co. Ltd (1864) 9. Binney v. The Ince Hall Coal and Cannel Company (1866) 10. Bloxam v. Metropolitan Railway Company (1868) 11. Rishton v. Grissell (1868) 12. Turquand v. Marshall (1868) 13. Stringer’s Case (1869) 14. Rance’s Case (1870) 15. Mills v. Norther Railway of Buenos Ayres Company (1870) 16. Salisbury v. Metropolitan Railway Company (1), (1869) 17. Salisbury v. Metropolitam Railway Company (2), (1870) 18. Bardwell v. Sheffield Waterworks Company (1872) 19. Lord Rokeby V. Elliot (1878) 20. Davison v. Gillies (1879) 21. Dent v. The London Tramways Company Ltd (1881) 22. City of Glasgow Bank v. Mackinnon (1882) 23. Flitcroft’s Case (18823) 24. In re Alexandra Palace Company (1882) 25. Lambert v. The Neuchatel Asphalte company Ltd (1882) 26. In re Frank Mills Mining Company (1883) 27. In re Oxford Benefit Building and Investment Society (1886) 28. Midland Land and Investment Corporation Ltd (1886) 29. Leeds Estate, Building and Investment Company v. Shepherd (1887) 30. Kehoe v. The Waterford and Limerick Railway Company (1888).

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