Contract Interpretation in UK Law
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Chartbrook Ltd v Persimmon Homes Ltd and another
......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 ...It is, I am afraid, not unusual that an interpretation which does not strike one person as sufficiently irrational to justify a ......
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Wood v Capita Insurance Services Ltd
...... 1 This appeal raises a question of contractual interpretation. It concerns an indemnity clause in an agreement dated 13 April 2010 ("the ... of the particular clause but that the court must consider the contract as a whole and, depending on the nature, formality and quality of drafting ......
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Transfield Shipping Inc. v Mercator Shipping Inc. (The Achilleas)
......, ie according to the usual course of things, from such breach of contract itself". It fell within that rule because it was damage "of a kind which ... of a party's liability for damages is founded upon the interpretation of the particular contract; not upon the interpretation of any particular ......
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Investors Compensation Scheme Ltd v West Bromwich Building Society
...... to the Claim whether such claims shall arise in debt, breach of contract, tort, breach of trust or in any other manner whatsoever (and including ...Lord Diplock said, at p. 407: "I turn to the interpretation of the relevant rules, bearing in mind that their purpose is to inform the ......
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Rainy Sky SA and Others v Kookmin Bank
...... claimant paid the second instalment of US$6,660,000 under the contract to which it is a party. . . 3 In 2008 the Builder ... in its contextual setting is the paramount principle of interpretation. But in the process of interpreting the meaning of the language of a ......
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Rookes v Barnard
......They neither broke their contract with him nor committed any tort against him. In this action the Appellant .... . 27 I have dealt at some length with the interpretation of the first part of section 3 because I have come to think that it throws ......
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Wickman Machine Tool Sales Ltd v L. Schuler A.G.
...... 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 ...But only if that is the only possible interpretation. . . 24 If I have to construe clause 7 standing by itself then I ......
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Heyman v Darwins Ltd
...... 2 By a written contract dated 19th February, 1938, the Respondents, who are manufacturers of steel ... the judge to let the action proceed, but will not alter the interpretation of the clause itself. . 16 The next case calling for ......
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Amin Rasheed Shipping Corporation v Kuwait Insurance Company
......Although the Assured had originally asserted that the contract of insurance had been made on its behalf by an agent trading in England, ... the law that governs the interpretation and the validity of the contract and the mode of performance and the ......
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Reardon Smith Line Ltd v Yngevar Hansen-Tangen (trading as H. E. Hansen-Tangen)
...... vessel from a Sumitomo company, which agreed to build it by sub-contract with Osaka; the Sumitomo company placed a ship-building contract with ..., for example as to subcontracting, are relevant in the interpretation of a charterparty contract between two foreign shipping companies, whether ......
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