Ostensible Authority in UK Law

  • Armagas Ltd v Mundogas SA (The Ocean Frost)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 18 Octubre 1984
    ... ... signature and denied that he had signed on their behalf: he had authority to sell the vessel but not to conclude or sign the three year charterparty ... The plaintiffs claimed that he had actual authority, or if not, ostensible authority, or if he had no authority, actual or ostensible, from the ... ...
  • Waugh v H.B. Clifford & Sons Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 21 Diciembre 1981
    ... ... any concluded and unconditional contract, and denied the authority of Messrs. Boys & Maughan as Second Defendants claiming against them ... Boys & Maughan ("the builders' solicitors") had ostensible authority to bind their clients H.B. Clifford & Sons Ltd. ("the builders") ... ...
  • Hely-Hutchinson v Brayhead Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 22 Junio 1967
    ... ... are not binding on the Company, because Mr Richards had no authority,actual or ostensible, to write those letter on and that Lord Suirdale, ... ...
  • Rolled Steel Products (Holdings) Ltd v British Steel Corporation
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 11 Junio 1984
    ... ... incorporated under the Companies' Acts and the powers and authority of their directors. Section 9(1) of the European Communities Act 1972, ... validly passed these Defendants are entitled to rely upon the ostensible authority of the directors of R.S.P. to enter into and to execute the ... ...
  • Freeman & Lockyer (A Firm)(Plaintiffs) Buckhurst Park Properties (Mangal) Ltd and Shiv Kumar Kapoor (Defendants)
    • Court of Appeal
    • 24 Enero 1964
    ... ... on the true Inference from all the facts Mr Kapoor had actual authority to engage the plaintiffs on behasf of the defendant company; alternatively ... ) that Mr Kapoor was held out by the defendant company as having ostensible authority, so tnat the latter Is estopped from denying responsibility for ... ...
  • Armagas Ltd v Mundogas SA (The Ocean Frost)
    • House of Lords
    • 22 Mayo 1986
    ... ... Mr. Magelssen had authority from Mundogas to agree to a straightforward sale of the vessel. He had no ... Staughton J. held that Mr. Magelssen had no actual or ostensible authority from Mundogas to conclude the charterparty, but he went on to ... ...
  • Reckitt and Colman Products Ltd (t/a Colmans of Norwich) v Borden Inc. and Others
    • House of Lords
    • 08 Febrero 1990
    ... ... In the first place Lord Terrington had no actual authority to draw these cheques at all or to receive the proceeds. His only actual ... Ostensible authority appears to be excluded when the party averring it cannot show ... ...
  • Guinness Plc v Saunders and Another
    • House of Lords
    • 08 Febrero 1990
    ... ... considered drafts of an underwriting agreement, a letter of authority to be signed by each of the directors of Guinness, two commitment letters ... Saunders who had implied actual authority, or ostensible authority, to do so. Mr. Ward pleads that he performed valuable services ... ...
  • Criterion Properties Plc v Stratford UK Properties LLC and Others
    • House of Lords
    • 17 Junio 2004
    ... ... of Criterion did so within the actual or apparent scope of their authority. This issue, in turn, depends upon an application of ordinary agency ... interests of Criterion, which was in excess of his actual and ostensible authority as a director of Criterion. As a result, Oaktree cannot rely on ... ...
  • Smith (Geoffrey) v Henniker-Major & Company
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 22 Julio 2002
    ... ... they are dealing with are in fact the company's board, or have authority from the board, just as they need to do when dealing with an agent ... of the company and so it was plainly possible to rely on their ostensible authority. But in other circumstances resort to the doctrine of estoppel ... ...
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