Thomas v Sorrell

Thomas v Sorrell
Citation(s)	[1673] EWHC (KB) J85, (1673) Vaugh 330
Keywords
Licence

Thomas v Sorrell [1673] EWHC (KB) J85 is an English land law case, concerning licenses in land.

Facts

Mr Thomas, on the Crown’s behalf, demanded Mr Sorrell pay for selling wine in the parish of Stepney without a licence. Mr Sorrell claimed he had a licence in his capacity as a member of the ‘Master, Warden, Freemen, and Commonality of the Mystery of Vintners of the City of London.’

Judgment

Vaughan CJ said ‘A dispensation or licence properly passeth no interest, nor alters or transfers property in any thing, but only makes an action lawful which, without it, had been unlawful.’^[1]

Sources on licences

Thomas v Sorrell (1673) EWHC (KB) J85

Protection from Eviction Act 1977 s 5

Winter Garden Theatre Ltd v Millennium Ltd [1948] AC 173

National Provincial Bank v Ainsworth [1965] UKHL 1

Tanner v Tanner [1975] EWCA Civ 4

Children Act 1989 s 15 and Sch 1

Verrall v Great Yarmouth BC [1981] QB 202

Thompson v Park [1944] KB 408

Hurst v Picture Theatres Ltd [1915] 1 KB 1

Hounslow LBC v Twickenham GD Ltd [1971] 1 Ch 233

Land Registration Act 2002 s 116

Family Law Act 1996 ss 30-31

Manchester Airport plc v Dutton [1999] EWCA Civ 844

Binions v Evans [1972] EWCA Civ 6

Ashburn Anstalt v Arnold [1988] EWCA Civ 14

Errington v Errington & Woods [1951] EWCA Civ 2

Inwards v Baker [1965] EWCA Civ 4

De Mattos v Gibson (1858) 4 De G&J 276

see English land law, licenses and leases

Sources on leases

LRA 2002 s 116 and Sch 3, para 1

Protection from Eviction Act 1977 s 5

Family Law Act 1996 ss 30-33

LPA 1925 ss 1 and 205(1)(xvii)

Errington v Errington [1951] EWCA Civ 2

Ashburn Anstalt v Arnold [1988] EWCA Civ 14

Street v Mountford [1985] UKHL 4

Mikeover v Brady [1989] EWCA Civ 1

Aslan v Murphy and Duke v Wynne [1989] EWCA Civ 2

AG Securities v Vaughan [1988] UKHL 8

Prudential Ltd v London Residuary Body [1991] UKHL 10

Bruton v London & Quadrant Housing Trust [1999] UKHL 26

ECHR art 8 and Prot 1, art 1

Kay v Lambeth LBC [2006] UKHL 10

see English land law, licenses and leases

Notes

↑ (1673) Vaugh 330, at 351

References

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