Buggy v.Maher

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Judgment Date: 01 January 1927
• Date: 01 January 1927
• Docket Number: (1924. No. 6756.)
• Court: Supreme Court (Irish Free State)

S. C., J. C.,

Buggy

and

Maher

Husband paying rent and getting fair rent fixed - Purchase by husband under Land Purchase Acts - Husband's title registered under the Local Registration of Title (Ireland) Act, 1891, subject to equities - Husband predeceasing wife -Whether chattel real vested in wife by survivorship - Graft - Purchase of Land (Ireland) Act, 1885 (48 49 Vict., c. 73), s. 8 - Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1887 (50 51 Vict., c. 33), s. 14 (3) -Local Registration of Title (Ireland) Act, 1891 (54 55 Vict., c. 66), ss. 73 (2), 84 (1), 86 (1) -Petition to the King for special leave to appeal -Leave refused.

The marriage portion of a woman, married in 1881, was a certain farm which was held by her father under a tenancy from year to year. There was a conflict of evidence as to whether her father transferred the farm before the marriage to her or to her husband. After the marriage the husband's name was entered as tenant in the landlord's books and he paid the rent until 1895, when a fair...