Mills v Shields and Kelly (No. 2)

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Judgment Date: 01 January 1950
• Date: 01 January 1950
• Court: High Court

Mills

and

Shields (No. 2)

Non-negotiable instruments - Choses in action - Savings certificates, stock and share certificates - Certificates containing insufficient indication of terms of contract under which held - Delivery of certificates not effective to give title to property to which they relate.

Post Office savings certificates of Saorstat Eireann, certificates of shares of public companies registered in Ireland, and certificates of stock and shares of public companies registered in England, are not documents of such a nature that delivery thereof can constitute a valid...