A dream of Moscow

I was in Moscow. I was leaving. There was some worry about missing a plane I had been worried about missing my jetoout of Arabia yesternigt. I skiedn down a hill. I was woth someone. Methinks this was a female. It was a very fun dream. I felt adventuresome. I passed a circus. It was not in motion but I saw all the animals in their cages at the back of the tent. I saw the lion but he was moth eaten and not proud. Later I returend the way I came – going up the hill. Somehow it did not seem difficult. It was a long dream and almost tiring. I had arrived at 8 am and then slpet. Maybe this dream allufes to my missive to Moscow when I told that horrid woman I worked for over  ayear ago excactly what I thought of her – antichrist.

English land law cases beginning with G

Gee V Pritchard

William Gee  owned Beddington Park. His son was William Pritchard.

Mrs Ann Gee was Wm Pritchard’s stepmother. Mrs Gee and Wm Pritchard had a falling out.

Letters were exchanged that Mrs Gee threatened to publish. She later returned the letters. Then it emerged that she had made copies of them.

The court held that letters are property. There can be no court case on emotion. There can be injury to letters since they are property.

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GISSING V GISSING

This couple wed in 1935. The bought a house. The husband paid almost all the money. Thw wife spent a bit of money on furniture.

Giissing the man paid the mortgage. He then moved out to live with his mistress. He allegedly took goody Gissing she could keep the house.

They divorved due to his adultery.

The House of Lords said that Mrs Gissing had made no contribution to the house and there was no common intention. sHE HAd no beneficial interest iin the house.

It was equitable to deny her an interest in the house.

When someone biys a house in his sole name it is assumed that he is the sole owner

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GLADSTONE v BOWER

This is a 1960 case about tenancies. UUnder the Agicultrual Holdings Act 1948 a tenancy of under a yeat was converted to a year on year tenancy by section 2.

A certain term of between two and five years was also converted to a year on year tenancy.

In ths case the tenancy was 18 months

Lord Diplock said there was an anomaly in the law. Parliaent cannot have wished for thse with tenancies of under ayear or over two yars to have security of enture but not for those with tenancies of 18 months.

The peer granted the man a tenancy of a year on year.

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GRANT V Edwards

A house was bought for a couple to live in. The man was in fact married to someone else. He registerd the house in his name and his brother’s name. He said he diid not put his mistress’s name on the deed because it would rejducie his divorce proceedings.

Mrs Grant was the claimaint and her boyfriend was Mr Edwards.

The court ruled that Mrs Grant was entitled to 50% of the proceedings from a sale owing to common intention/

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English land law cases beginning with D.

Dudley v Dudley 1705

Lord Dudley leased land foor 99 years. It was to provide an income for his grandchildren. Ot was to eventually t o his son and heirs of is body male.

It was establoshed that equity is a virtue.

Lady  Diana was allowed to live on the land and derive profits from it since it was her dower.

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DUKE OF NORFOLKS’ CASE

The law tries to make land marketable.

The Duke of Norfolk tried to set up a perpeturity He wanted his titles to pass down through hsi sons from edlest to youngest but bypassing the third one.

This woid hae been an unreasonable restraint on alienation. He wanted to give the land to grandchildrne as yet unborn,

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DYER v DYER

This is a 1788 trsust case.

It is about presumption of a resulating trust

Someone purchases land for himself using money provided by another. If that money was not a loan or a present then it is assumed that the owner holds the land on trust for himself and the person who stumped up the cash

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Robert Maxwell – was there fair play?

I am coming to the end of a tome entitled ”The assassination of Robert Maxwell”. One of the co-authors is Martin Dillon. Dillon has penned many revealing books on the Troubles in his native Northern Ireland. He is a hard hitting investigative journalist who commands wide respect.

This book is pacey and reads like a novel. Some of it is so detailed I imagine that they invoked artistic licence to provide vividness to some scenes. It is meticulously researched. The central thesis of this book is that Robert Maxwell was killed by the Mossad.

It is meet to include a little background on Bob Maxwell. He was born Jan Hoch in what was then Czechoslovakia. The poverty stricken stetl where he grew up is now in the Ukraine. He grew up multilingual. In the Second World War Slovakia became an independent country and a satellite of the Third Reich. It was ruled by an anti-Semitic priest – Father Jozef Tisa. Jan Hoch somehow got to France. He gave numerous contradictory accounts of his adventures. The common factor was that he portrayed himself as a hero. He was always a shameless self-publicist. He fled to the United Kingdom and joined the British Army. He learnt English very quickly. He changed his name six times by the age of 22. Never trust someone who cannot even tell the truth about their own name. He liked to reinvent himself. He was a charlatan, a serial liar, a crook and a brute but he was clever. Not even his most implacable enemy doubted his intelligence. I am not just talking about low cunning. His English was perfect. In France near the end of the war he wed a French Gentile.

He got the military cross in the war. Most of his family were murdered in the Holocaust. I should have mentioned he was Judaic. He soon made friends with Germans which was magnanimous of him. He went into publishing right after the war. He set up links with the newly communist states in Eastern Europe including his native Czechoslovakia.

Maxwell prospered. He also founded Maxwell House coffee. His name and image was on many of this things he owned. He wanted a political career. He favoured the Conservative Party but suspected they would not touch him because of his foreign birth. His Jewishness cannot have been an issue since there were plenty of Jews in the party in the 1950s.

He joined the Labour Party. He was a very avaricious capitalist in a time when many in Labour despised capitalism. He managed to be elected MP for Buckingham which was usually a rock solid Conservative seat. That was a major accomplishment. He held the constituency for one election then lost it. He concentrated in the Daily Mirror. This newspaper, which he owned, was the main pro Labour tabloid. He insisted on editorial control. It was little more than a Maxwell mouthpiece. He had articles by him in it. He had his activites covered prominently.

He knew most leaders in the Easter Bloc. He fawned on this. His sycophancy was flagrant as it was nauseating. His first love was Israel. He visited it on many occasions and did a lot to help. He assisted Mossad and had friendly relations with the secret services of communist nations.

By 1991 his businesses were failing. Rather than cut back he tried to inflate his share prices by illegally buying them himself. He borrowed money and moved it between account. By late 1991 the solids had hit the fan. The creditors were hammering on the loan. No one would lend him another bean nor would they extend the repayment schedules. He had raised his company’s pension fund to try to play the stock market. He was facing utter ruin. He would lost all his wealth. His crimes would come to light. It would be gaol time. For a man who staked his enormous ego on his image and material success this was unbearable.

Could he have committed suicide. His family said he would never do such a thing and spoke with disdain about it. He was 68 – massively obese and he was a heavy drinker and smoker. Coupled with the enormous stress he was under it is impossible that he had a heart attack. Some pathologists concluded that he had had a cardiac arrest.

There were injured consisted with a fall and trying to hang onto the boat. There was a small puncture wound at the back of his neck. He might have been killed. But by whom? His enemies were legion. He allegedly tried to blackmail Israel into bailing him out financially. The hardlinersin the KGB might have been agin him for denouncing the August 1991 coup. He had also sold software to many intelligence agencies that allowed Mossad to follow what these people were doing. There were a lot of piss offs. COuld his creditos have killed him? Would this make them more likely to get the loot? How about his family/ Maybe it would improve their situation. He was also very unfaithful to his wife. There are so many possibilities.