Formation of Contract in UK Law

  • Wickman Machine Tool Sales Ltd v L. Schuler A.G.
    • House of Lords
    • 04 Abril 1973
    ... ... b )(i) which were not waived they were entitled to terminate the contract ... 11 I think it right first to consider the meaning of clause 11 ... at the time, what intention ought to be imputed to them on the formation of the contract. Unless it were to found an estoppel or a subsequent ... ...
  • Whitworth Street Estates (Manchester) Ltd v James Miller and Partners Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 03 Marzo 1970
    ... ... They accepted the Appellants' tender for the work and the contract made by the parties was in the form published by the Royal Institute of ... at the time, what intention ought to be imputed to them on the formation of the contract. Unless it were to found an estoppel or a subsequent ... ...
  • Hely-Hutchinson v Brayhead Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 22 Junio 1967
    ... ... So there was no contract by the Company. Second, they say that if there was a contract by the ... In other words, that disclosure is a condition precedent to the formation of a contract. But I do not think that is correct. All that Article 99 ... ...
  • RTS Flexible Systems Ltd v Molkerei Alois Muller GmbH & Company KG
    • Supreme Court
    • 21 Julio 2010
    ... ... The claim was brought by RTS for "money due under a contract, alternatively damages". A number of issues arose between the parties and ... which they regarded or the law requires as essential for the formation of legally binding relations. Even if certain terms of economic or other ... ...
  • Jennings v Rice
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 22 Febrero 2002
    ... ... terms of the offer were too vague and imprecise to amount to a contract. Mrs Royle was prone to saying different things at different times and, ... not far short of an enforceable contract (if the only bar to the formation of a contract is non-compliance with section 2 of the Law of Property ... ...
  • Apple Corps Ltd v Apple Computer Inc. [ChD]
    • Chancery Division
    • 07 Abril 2004
    ... ... the relevant agreement was governed by English law, and that the contract was made in England. At the hearing before me Corps sought to rely on the ... That form of approach assumes that one can analyse the formation of a contract in offer and acceptance terms, and in Brinkibon Lord ... ...
  • Tiverton Estates Ltd v Wearwell Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 20 Noviembre 1973
    ... ... could protect their clients by writing their letters "subject to contract". Law v. Jones shattered this belief. To the minds of solicitors, it ... , until accepted and takes effect simultaneously with the formation of the contract ... 77 Lord Justice Bowen in Re ... ...
  • Baird Textile Holdings Ltd v Marks and Spencer Plc
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 28 Febrero 2001
    ... ... proceedings against M&S contending that M&S was precluded by both contract and estoppel from determining such arrangements without reasonable notice ... did not suggest that the normal rules as to the implication and formation of contracts or the usual requirements of certainty did not apply to ... ...
  • O'Sullivan v Management Agency and Music Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 14 Febrero 1984
    ... ... February 1972 to coincide with the release of O'Sullivan from his contract with April Music. At about the same time O'Sullivan moved into a cottage ... Davison. The new agreement would provide for the formation of a New Company into which all existing copyrights composed by Gilbert ... ...
  • Trentham (G Percy) Ltd v Archital Luxfer Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 20 Julio 1992
    ... ... An agreement dated 2nd February 1984 ("the main contract") governed phase 1. An agreement dated 18th December 1984 ("the ... for an explanation of the relevance of the dispute about the formation of the two alleged sub-contracts. The answer is to be found in subsequent ... ...
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