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]

See also

Notes

  1. (1673) Vaugh 330, at 351

References

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