Comyn v Attorney General
Jurisdiction | Ireland |
Judgment Date | 29 June 1950 |
Date | 29 June 1950 |
Docket Number | (1947. No. 124 P.) |
Court | Supreme Court |
Compulsory acquisition of property - Compensation - Compulsory acquisition by the State by Emergency Powers Order of mining rights formerly demised by Ministers of Government - Whether such acquisition constitutes an acquisition by a "Government Department" under Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act, 1919, s. 1, sub-s. 1 -Assessment of compensation - Procedure -Whether compensation to be assessed by Referee under Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act, 1919, or by a Judge of the High Court - The Constitution, Article 50 -Constitution of the Irish Free State (Saorstat Eireann) Act, 1922 (No. 1 of 1922), Sch. I, Article 73 - Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act, 1919 (9 10 Geo. 5, c. 57), s. 1, sub-s. 1 - Emergency Powers Act, 1939 (No.28 of 1939), s. 2, sub-s. 2 (g) - Emergency Powers (No. 144) Order, 1942 (Stat. R. Or., 1942, No.31.)
In the year 1939, the Minister for Industry and Commerce and the Minister for Finance on behalf of the Government demised...
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