Ostensible Authority in UK Law
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Armagas Ltd v Mundogas SA (The Ocean Frost)
... ... 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 ... ...
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Hely-Hutchinson v Brayhead Ltd
... ... are not binding on the Company, because Mr Richards had no authority,actual or ostensible, to write those letter on and that Lord Suirdale, ... ...
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Freeman & Lockyer (A Firm)(Plaintiffs) Buckhurst Park Properties (Mangal) Ltd and Shiv Kumar Kapoor (Defendants)
... ... 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 ... ...
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Waugh v H.B. Clifford & Sons Ltd
... ... 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") ... ...
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Armagas Ltd v Mundogas SA (The Ocean Frost)
... ... 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 ... ...
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Rolled Steel Products (Holdings) Ltd v British Steel Corporation
... ... 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 ... ...
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Reckitt and Colman Products Ltd (t/a Colmans of Norwich) v Borden Inc. and Others
... ... 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 ... ...
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Morris v Kanssen, sub nom Kanssen v Rialto (West End) Ltd
... ... time the same subscribers to the Memorandum, in exercise of the authority conferred on them by the Articles of Association of the company, appointed ... In the law of agency it is illustrated by the doctrine of ostensible authority. In the law relating to corporations its application is very ... ...
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Lever Finance Ltd v Westminister (City) London Borough Council
... ... On the 24th March, 1969, the planning authority, the Westminster City Council, gave permission for that development in ... If an officer, acting within the scope of his ostensible authority, makes a representation on which another acts, then a public ... ...
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Guinness Plc v Saunders and Another
... ... 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 ... ...
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