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  • Thumbnail for Privity of contract
    The doctrine of privity of contract is a common law principle which provides that a contract cannot confer rights or impose obligations upon anyone who...
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  • depending on the circumstances and legal doctrines at issue." Privity in English law Privity of estate Third party beneficiary Commissioner v. Sunnen, 333...
    4 KB (498 words) - 15:36, 3 December 2023
  • Privity is a doctrine in English contract law that covers the relationship between parties to a contract and other parties or agents. At its most basic...
    26 KB (3,703 words) - 04:27, 15 June 2023
  • tenant. Thus, privity of estate refers to the legal relationship that two parties bear when their estates constitute one estate in law. Privity of estate...
    2 KB (182 words) - 21:10, 8 November 2023
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    Tweddle v Atkinson (category English privity case law)
    contract law case concerning the principle of privity of contract and consideration. Its panel of appeal judges reinforced that the doctrine of privity meant...
    5 KB (572 words) - 18:18, 9 May 2023
  • alter the requirements of horizontal privity of estate. Privity may be instantaneous and mutual; instantaneous privity is present when the restrictive covenant...
    39 KB (4,979 words) - 07:59, 10 November 2024
  • White v Jones (category English privity case law)
    White v Jones [1995] UKHL 5 is a leading English tort law case concerning professional negligence and the conditions under which a person will be taken...
    3 KB (254 words) - 04:12, 9 April 2023
  • Thumbnail for Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Co Ltd v Selfridge & Co Ltd
    Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Co Ltd v Selfridge & Co Ltd (category English privity case law)
    agreement for resale price maintenance was unenforceable as a matter of privity of contract. It should not be confused with Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Co Ltd...
    4 KB (442 words) - 04:51, 2 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Beswick v Beswick
    Beswick v Beswick (category English privity case law)
    English contract law case on privity of contract and specific performance. The House of Lords, overruling the decision of Lord Denning in the Court of Appeal...
    25 KB (4,214 words) - 12:40, 12 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Henderson v Merrett Syndicates Ltd
    Henderson v Merrett Syndicates Ltd (category English privity case law)
    the law of tort as supplementary to the law of contract, i.e. as providing for a tortious liability in cases where there is no contract. Yet the law of...
    7 KB (897 words) - 16:12, 13 December 2023
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    MacPherson overruled the prior common law by rendering the formerly dominant factor in the boundary, that is, the privity formality arising out of a contractual...
    127 KB (16,916 words) - 20:58, 6 November 2024
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    Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 (category English contract law)
    Parliament of the United Kingdom that significantly reformed the common law doctrine of privity and "thereby [removed] one of the most universally disliked and...
    28 KB (3,887 words) - 10:21, 18 September 2024
  • used in contract law to refer to an interested third party not privy to a contract. The English common law system follows the doctrine of privity: there...
    2 KB (265 words) - 17:06, 25 January 2023
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    Dutton v Poole (1678) (category English privity case law)
    Dutton v Poole (1678) is a landmark decision in the Court of Chancery. It established the rule that privity of contract coupled with lack of consideration...
    4 KB (557 words) - 15:34, 31 January 2024
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    Williams v Natural Life Health Foods Ltd (category English privity case law)
    restricted conception of contract in English law, resulting from the combined effect of the principles of consideration and privity of contract, was the backcloth...
    18 KB (2,712 words) - 16:35, 8 April 2023
  • 350. The owners of the Titanic were successful in showing that the sinking occurred without their privity and knowledge, and therefore, the families of...
    13 KB (1,779 words) - 20:07, 5 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Law of France
    French law has a dual jurisdictional system comprising private law (droit privé), also known as judicial law, and public law (droit public). Judicial law includes...
    59 KB (6,891 words) - 20:21, 5 October 2024
  • person. Black's Law Dictionary (6th ed.) defines duress as "any unlawful threat or coercion used... to induce another to act [or not act] in a manner [they]...
    12 KB (1,746 words) - 19:31, 25 December 2023
  • the assignment takes place. However, in general, the assignee has privity of estate with a lessor. With privity of estate comes the duty on the part of...
    27 KB (3,715 words) - 13:38, 21 October 2024
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    NZ Shipping Co Ltd v A M Satterthwaite & Co Ltd (category English privity case law)
    N 295 which their Lordship consider to be good law. English contract law Privity Privity in English law Third party beneficiary Carlill v Carbolic Smoke...
    6 KB (780 words) - 13:04, 28 October 2024
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