Contract Formation in UK Law

  • 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 ......
  • Bell v Lever Bros Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 15 Diciembre 1931
    ......The earlier contract with Mr. Bell was replaced by a fresh agreement for five years from the ... 129 This case involves a question of much importance in the formation and dissolution of contracts. The facts are not very complicated, though ......
  • Rollerteam Ltd and Another v Riley
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 16 Diciembre 2016
    ......, section 2(1) of the 1989 Act provides that: "A contract for the sale or other disposition of an interest in land can only be made ... The formation of the settlement agreement on 11 April 2013 ......
  • Great Peace Shipping Ltd v Tsavliris Salvage (International) Ltd (Cape Providence)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 14 Octubre 2002
    ...... exposition of the rules of law governing the effect of mistake on contract. In 1950 in Solle v Butcher [1950] 1 KB 671 Denning LJ identified an ... may prevent the mutuality of agreement that is necessary for the formation of a contract. In order for two parties to conclude a contract binding in ......
  • Chartbrook Ltd v Persimmon Homes Ltd and another
    • House of Lords
    • 01 Julio 2009
    ......As Lord Gifford explained, the very purpose of a formal contract is to put an end to the disputes which would inevitably arise if the ... parties - into their intentions - any more than you do in the formation of any other contract. You look at their outward acts, that is, at what ......
  • Interfoto Picture Library Ltd v Stiletto Visual Programmes Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 12 Noviembre 1987
    ...... wishes to make use of transparencies so submitted to him, a fresh contract has to be agreed with the plaintiffs, but, as that did not happen so far ... the civil law principle of good faith, at any rate so far as the formation of the contract is concerned. . . 43 Turning to the present case, ......
  • Johnson v Agnew
    • House of Lords
    • 08 Marzo 1979
    ...... appeal arises in a vendors' action for specific performance of a contract for the sale of land, the appellant being the purchaser and the vendors ... When a contract is rescinded because of matters which affect its formation, as in the case of fraud, the parties are to be rehabilitated and ......
  • Fibrosa Spolka Akcyjna v Fairbairn Lawson Combe Barbour Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 15 Junio 1942
    ...... Leeds the business of manufacturing textile machinery, and by a contract in writing dated the 12th July, 1939, the Respondents agreed to supply the ... contracts under seal—and thus, in the law relating to the formation of contract, the promise to do a thing may often be the consideration. But ......
  • Paal Wilson & Company A/S v Partenreederei Hannah Blumenthal
    • House of Lords
    • 02 Diciembre 1982
    ...... somewhat more detailed analysis of the concept of rescission of contract by abandonment and of the legal nature of the obligations assumed by the ... . 7 To the formation of the contract of abandonment, the ordinary principles of the English law ......
  • McCutcheon v David Macbrayne Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 21 Enero 1964
    ...... . 2 The question is, what was the contract between the parties? The contract was an oral one. No document was signed ...It played no part in the formation of the contract and there was no reason to suppose that it referred to ......
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