Oral Agreement in UK Law

  • Steadman v Steadman
    • House of Lords
    • 19 Junio 1974
    ... ... 3 The parties then reached an oral agreement with regard to both the maintenance and the house. The Court ... ...
  • Yeoman's Row Management Ltd and another v Cobbe
    • House of Lords
    • 30 Julio 2008
    ... ... They reach an oral "agreement in principle" on the core terms of the sale but no written ... ...
  • Tiverton Estates Ltd v Wearwell Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 20 Noviembre 1973
    ... ... This being oral, they shook hands on the deal and agreed to instruct their solicitors to ... ".…In our view it is quite clear that no contract or effective agreement between our respective clients has been reached and that any attempt to ... ...
  • Yaxley v Gotts and another
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 24 Junio 1999
    ... ... The judgment below was largely concerned with the assessment of the oral evidence which the Judge had heard (although it also contained an ... But in the event it was left as what was called a 'gentleman's agreement'. The Judge found that Mr Yaxley had a "close relationship" with Mr ... ...
  • Actionstrength Ltd (trading as Vital Resources) v International Glass Engineering in.GL.EN SpA and another
    • House of Lords
    • 03 Abril 2003
    ... ... of enforceability, some written memorandum or note of the agreement signed by the party to be charged under the agreement or his authorised ... : that a party, making and acting on what was thought to be a binding oral agreement, would find his commercial expectations defeated when the time ... ...
  • Rock Advertising Ltd v MWB Business Exchange Centres Ltd
    • Supreme Court
    • 16 Mayo 2018
    ... ... The first is whether a contractual term prescribing that an agreement may not be amended save in writing signed on behalf of the parties ly called a “No Oral Modification” clause) is legally effective. The second is whether an ... ...
  • Walford and Others v Miles and Another
    • House of Lords
    • 23 Enero 1992
    ... ... This letter was however overtaken by oral exchanges which occurred on the same day between Mr. Martin Walford and ... the penultimate paragraph of that letter correctly sets out the agreement which had been reached as to negotiations between third parties. It reads ... ...
  • Luxor (Eastbourne) Ltd v Cooper
    • House of Lords
    • 12 Diciembre 1940
    ... ... a sum of £,000 as commission alleged to be due under a verbal agreement made in September, 1935. Alternatively, he claims the same amount as ... The only contract pleaded and sued upon, is an oral contract made between those two. The evidence as to it is quite short. It ... ...
  • Rose (F. E.) (London) v William H. Pim Jnr. & Company
    • Court of Appeal
    • 16 Julio 1953
    ... ... and the Defendants, through their respective market agents, made an oral agreement in which they intended to deal in horsebeans of the feverole ... ...
  • Decro-Wall International S.A. v Practitioners in Marketing Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 15 Octubre 1970
    ... ... Mr. Clothier is the defendants' managing director. An oral agreement was reached between the parties in March, 1967. Under the terms ... ...
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