Oral Contract in UK Law

  • Tiverton Estates Ltd v Wearwell Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 20 November 1973
    ... ... could protect their clients by writing their letters "subject to contract". Law v. Jones shattered this belief. To the minds of solicitors, it ... This being oral, they shook hands on the deal and agreed to instruct their solicitors to ... ...
  • Law v Jones
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 10 April 1973
    ... ... memorandum under Section 40 of the Law of Property Act, 1925, of an oral contract for the sale by the defendant appellant to the plaintiff of a ... ...
  • Daulia Ltd v Four Millbank Nominees Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 24 November 1977
    ... ... sale and purchase, but they claim they did obtain a unilateral contract by the first defendants that they would enter into a written contract of ... The said terms were partly oral and partly in writing. Insofar as theywere in writing they were contained ... ...
  • Steadman v Steadman
    • House of Lords
    • 19 June 1974
    ... ... 3 The parties then reached an oral agreement with regard to both the maintenance and the house. The Court ... : "(1) No action may be brought upon any contract for the sale or other disposition of land or any interest in land, unless ... ...
  • Yaxley v Gotts and another
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 24 June 1999
    ... ... , so far as now material, provides as follows, "(1) A contract for the sale or other disposition of an interest in land can only be made ... The judgment below was largely concerned with the assessment of the oral evidence which the Judge had heard (although it also contained an ... ...
  • McCutcheon v David Macbrayne Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 21 January 1964
    ... ... 2 The question is, what was the contract between the parties? The contract was an oral one. No document was signed ... ...
  • Rose (F. E.) (London) v William H. Pim Jnr. & Company
    • Court of Appeal
    • 16 July 1953
    ... ... If there came about a contract between them the Defendants were buying from North Africa, and the ... and the Defendants, through their respective market agents, made an oral agreement in which they intended to deal in horsebeans of the feverole ... ...
  • Actionstrength Ltd (trading as Vital Resources) v International Glass Engineering in.GL.EN SpA and another
    • House of Lords
    • 03 April 2003
    ... ... The solution applied to the five classes of contract specified in section 4 was to require, as a condition of enforceability, ... : 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 ... ...
  • Shogun Finance Ltd v Hudson
    • House of Lords
    • 19 November 2003
    ... ... the effect of fraudulent misrepresentation on the formation of a contract. If a crook (C) fraudulently represents to the owner of goods (O) that he ... he is X, there can be a contract between O and C if the contract is oral but not if it is reduced into writing and expressed to be made between O ... ...
  • Joscelyne v Nissen
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 19 December 1969
    ... ... 5 It is however argued for the daughter that the contract signed did not on its true construction provide for payment of these ... instrument save to accord with a complete antecedent concluded oral contract with the daughter, and as was found by the judge there was none ... ...
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