Promissory Estoppel in UK Law
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Thorner v Curtis and Others
... ... Such a claim, under the principle known as proprietary estoppel, requires the claimant to prove a promise or assurance that he will ... (12th) edition (2007) by Mr Edwin Peel, in a passage comparing promissory and proprietary estoppel, states (para 3-144): ... ...
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Woodhouse A.C. Israel Cocoa Ltd S.A. v Nigerian Produce Marketing Company Ltd
... ... (ii) that in any event the Respondents were precluded by way of estoppel from disavowing an obligation to accept payment as if the price had ... sterling of the same nominal amount", so as to give rise to a promissory estoppel ... 21 The letter was replied to on the 5th October, 1967, by ... ...
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Williams v Roffey Bros & Nicholls (Contractors) Ltd
... ... us in argument that, since the development of the doctrine of promissory estoppel, it may well be possible for a person to whom a promise has been ... ...
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Yeoman's Row Management Ltd and another v Cobbe
... ... (i) First, there is proprietary estoppel. B has, with the encouragement of A, spent time and money in obtaining the ... estoppel becomes a "proprietary" estoppel - a sub-species of a "promissory" estoppel - if the right claimed is a proprietary right, usually a right ... ...
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Kammins Ballrooms Company Ltd v Zenith Investments (Torquay) Ltd
... ... 76 In Spencer Bower's "The Law Relating to Estoppel" 1966 2nd Ed: the following passage appears at p. 291:— ... of the term or a quasi-estoppel arising under the doctrine of promissory estoppel laid down in the High Trees case [1947] K.B. 130 and Combe ... ...
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Jennings v Rice
... ... March 2001 is concerned with one aspect of the law of proprietary estoppel, namely the extent of the relief where the claimant establishes the ... "The basis of this proprietary estoppel—as indeed of promissory estoppel—is the interposition of equity. Equity comes in, true to form, ... ...
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Hunter and Others v Chief Constable of West Midlands
... ... out these actions, the police relyfirst on the law as to issue estoppel. They say that the six men are estopped from raising again an issue which ... , estoppel by election or waiver, estoppel by negligence, promissory estoppel, proprietary estoppel, and goodness knows what else. These ... ...
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Pascoe v Turner
... ... (b)Did she prove such facts as prevented the plaintiff by estoppel from asserting his legal title? ... 7 (c)If the ... class of case and the doctrine which has come to be known as "promissory estoppel" is that where estoppel by encouragement or acquiescence is found ... ...
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Alan (W. J.) & Company Ltd v El Nasr Export and Import Company
... ... contract? or a waiver of the strict rights thereunder? or a promissory estoppel precluding the seller from insisting on his strict rights? or ... ...
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British Airways Board v Laker Airways Ltd
... ... of examples most of them equitable in historical origin, such as estoppel in pais (which was also a defence at common law), promissory estoppel, ... ...
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