Charles Mitchell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3950713 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles Mitchell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles |
| FAMILY NAME | Mitchell |
| SIGNATURE | MITCHELL C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Trinity College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0087-6796 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1944 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Knowing Receipt, Equitable Proprietary Rights, and Duties of Due Administration
In Byers v Saudi National Bank (2023) the Supreme Court held that a claimant in knowing receipt must have had a ‘continuing equitable proprietary interest’ in the property received by the defendant. Such an interest is commonly understood to include a right to benefit from the property, yet successful claims in knowing receipt have often been made by claimants without such a right. We therefore propose a different interpretation of all the knowin…
Making Sense of Mesne Profits
The article examines a series of cases spanning a 250-year period in which the courts have awarded “mesne profits” against defendants who have occupied claimants’ land. The article argues (1) that various causes of action are disclosed by the facts of cases in which such awards have been made, (2) that these causes of action have changed as the law of obligations has evolved, (3) that modern courts often do not consider what causes of action are …
Making Sense of Mesne Profits
This is the second of two articles about cases in which awards of “mesne profits” have been made against defendants who have occupied claimants’ land. The first article argues that the facts of cases where such awards have been made variously support claims in tort, contract or unjust enrichment and that practical consequences can flow from categorising the cases in one way or another. One is that different rules affect the assessment of remedies…
Charitable Endowment and Social Change
The article discusses the law governing cy-près applications of charitable endowment during the Victorian period and the institutional framework within which cy-près orders and schemes were made. Powers to make such orders and schemes were vested in the court of chancery and the charity commissioners, a body of administrative officials created in 1853. Some case-studies are undertaken, to gain a better understanding of the approaches taken by the…
The Silent Spring
This article explores the Arab Spring uprisings that started in late 2010, and investigates why pro-democracy movements were circumvented in most Gulf Cooperation Council countries. Our research is qualitative in nature, and looks into the antecedents of the revolts in Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Algeria, and Yemen to ascertain why revolutionary activity was precluded in Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Oman. T…
Travels through American History in the Mid-Atlantic
Ps
In 2011, PS: Political Science and Politics published articles covering a vast range of topics. The journal's commitment to publishing articles on pedagogy and the profession, as well as exemplary topical scholarship on a spectrum of issues, call for an equally broad stable of reviewers. PS cannot publish such diverse work without the outstanding work (and openmindedness) of our peer reviewers. The peer-review process relies on the professionalis…
English Law 1820–1914
Zora Neale Hurston
Recovery of Compound Interest as Restitution or Damages
Maryland Voices of the Civil War
"The most contentious event in our nation's history, the Civil War deeply divided families, friends, and communities. Both sides fought to define the conflict on their own terms - Lincoln and his supporters struggled to preserve the Union and end slavery, while the Confederacy waged a battle for the primacy of local liberty or "states' rights." But the war had its own peculiar effects on the four border slave states that remained loyal to the Uni…
Wordsworth and the old men
In the 1830s the poet William Wordsworth bought government annuities on the lives of old men from the Lake District and elsewhere. This episode is recounted for the light which it throws on the history of the government's life annuity business in the early nineteenth century. An account of this business is given, and an explanation offered for the fact that the government suffered heavy losses at the hands of life assurance companies and other sp…
Remedies for Dishonest Assistance
The paper considers the nature of claims against dishonest assistants and the various money remedies those claims may evoke. Dishonest assistance is a form of civil secondary liability whereby the assistant is held jointly and severally liable along with the trustee whose misconduct he assisted. This is the sense in which dishonest assistants are said to be accountable as constructive trustees. In order to understand remedies available against di…
Reclaiming the Sacred Landscape
Vita Viri Clarissimi et Famosissimi Kyriaci Anconitani
Francesco Scalamonti, Charles Mitchell, Edward W. Bodnar, Vita Viri Clarissimi et Famosissimi Kyriaci Anconitani, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, Vol. 86, No. 4 (1996), pp. i-vii+1-246
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
The prevailing critical comment on Dickens' The Mystery of Eduwn Drood has been directed more toward the second than toward the first half, that is, more toward what Dickens did not write than what he did. As a result most of the criticism has taken the form of speculation, with the major recent effort representing a masterly Sherlock Holmes solution to its mystery.' Critical reluctance to engage with anything as problematic as half a literary cr…
Benjamin West's "Death of General Wolfe" and the Popular History Piece
Ps
In 2011, PS: Political Science and Politics published articles covering a vast range of topics. The journal's commitment to publishing articles on pedagogy and the profession, as well as exemplary topical scholarship on a spectrum of issues, call for an equally broad stable of reviewers. PS cannot publish such diverse work without the outstanding work (and openmindedness) of our peer reviewers. The peer-review process relies on the professionalis…
Remedies for Dishonest Assistance
The paper considers the nature of claims against dishonest assistants and the various money remedies those claims may evoke. Dishonest assistance is a form of civil secondary liability whereby the assistant is held jointly and severally liable along with the trustee whose misconduct he assisted. This is the sense in which dishonest assistants are said to be accountable as constructive trustees. In order to understand remedies available against di…
Vita Viri Clarissimi et Famosissimi Kyriaci Anconitani
Francesco Scalamonti, Charles Mitchell, Edward W. Bodnar, Vita Viri Clarissimi et Famosissimi Kyriaci Anconitani, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, Vol. 86, No. 4 (1996), pp. i-vii+1-246
Benjamin West's "Death of General Wolfe" and the Popular History Piece
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
The prevailing critical comment on Dickens' The Mystery of Eduwn Drood has been directed more toward the second than toward the first half, that is, more toward what Dickens did not write than what he did. As a result most of the criticism has taken the form of speculation, with the major recent effort representing a masterly Sherlock Holmes solution to its mystery.' Critical reluctance to engage with anything as problematic as half a literary cr…
Vita Viri Clarissimi et Famosissimi Kyriaci Anconitani
Francesco Scalamonti, Charles Mitchell, Edward W. Bodnar, Vita Viri Clarissimi et Famosissimi Kyriaci Anconitani, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, Vol. 86, No. 4 (1996), pp. i-vii+1-246
Reclaiming the Sacred Landscape
Wordsworth and the old men
In the 1830s the poet William Wordsworth bought government annuities on the lives of old men from the Lake District and elsewhere. This episode is recounted for the light which it throws on the history of the government's life annuity business in the early nineteenth century. An account of this business is given, and an explanation offered for the fact that the government suffered heavy losses at the hands of life assurance companies and other sp…
Remedies for Dishonest Assistance
The paper considers the nature of claims against dishonest assistants and the various money remedies those claims may evoke. Dishonest assistance is a form of civil secondary liability whereby the assistant is held jointly and severally liable along with the trustee whose misconduct he assisted. This is the sense in which dishonest assistants are said to be accountable as constructive trustees. In order to understand remedies available against di…
Maryland Voices of the Civil War
"The most contentious event in our nation's history, the Civil War deeply divided families, friends, and communities. Both sides fought to define the conflict on their own terms - Lincoln and his supporters struggled to preserve the Union and end slavery, while the Confederacy waged a battle for the primacy of local liberty or "states' rights." But the war had its own peculiar effects on the four border slave states that remained loyal to the Uni…
Zora Neale Hurston
Recovery of Compound Interest as Restitution or Damages
English Law 1820–1914
Ps
In 2011, PS: Political Science and Politics published articles covering a vast range of topics. The journal's commitment to publishing articles on pedagogy and the profession, as well as exemplary topical scholarship on a spectrum of issues, call for an equally broad stable of reviewers. PS cannot publish such diverse work without the outstanding work (and openmindedness) of our peer reviewers. The peer-review process relies on the professionalis…
Travels through American History in the Mid-Atlantic
The Silent Spring
This article explores the Arab Spring uprisings that started in late 2010, and investigates why pro-democracy movements were circumvented in most Gulf Cooperation Council countries. Our research is qualitative in nature, and looks into the antecedents of the revolts in Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Algeria, and Yemen to ascertain why revolutionary activity was precluded in Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Oman. T…
Charitable Endowment and Social Change
The article discusses the law governing cy-près applications of charitable endowment during the Victorian period and the institutional framework within which cy-près orders and schemes were made. Powers to make such orders and schemes were vested in the court of chancery and the charity commissioners, a body of administrative officials created in 1853. Some case-studies are undertaken, to gain a better understanding of the approaches taken by the…
Making Sense of Mesne Profits
The article examines a series of cases spanning a 250-year period in which the courts have awarded “mesne profits” against defendants who have occupied claimants’ land. The article argues (1) that various causes of action are disclosed by the facts of cases in which such awards have been made, (2) that these causes of action have changed as the law of obligations has evolved, (3) that modern courts often do not consider what causes of action are …
Making Sense of Mesne Profits
This is the second of two articles about cases in which awards of “mesne profits” have been made against defendants who have occupied claimants’ land. The first article argues that the facts of cases where such awards have been made variously support claims in tort, contract or unjust enrichment and that practical consequences can flow from categorising the cases in one way or another. One is that different rules affect the assessment of remedies…
Knowing Receipt, Equitable Proprietary Rights, and Duties of Due Administration
In Byers v Saudi National Bank (2023) the Supreme Court held that a claimant in knowing receipt must have had a ‘continuing equitable proprietary interest’ in the property received by the defendant. Such an interest is commonly understood to include a right to benefit from the property, yet successful claims in knowing receipt have often been made by claimants without such a right. We therefore propose a different interpretation of all the knowin…
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