Sale of Land in UK Law

  • Johnson v Agnew
    • House of Lords
    • 08 March 1979
    ... ... in a vendors' action for specific performance of a contract for the sale of land, the appellant being the purchaser and the vendors respondents ... ...
  • Behzadi v Shaftesbury Hotels Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 31 July 1990
    ... ... 174 Harman J. held that where one party to a contract for the sale of land fails to meet the date fixed for its completion, time not being of ... ...
  • Attorney-General v Blake (pet. all.)
    • House of Lords
    • 27 July 2000
    ... ... A trespasser who enters another's land may cause the landowner no financial loss. In such a case damages are ... The innocent party could suppose that the wrongful sale had been made with his consent and bring an action for money 'had and ... ...
  • United Scientific Holdings Ltd v Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the County Borough of Burnley now The Council of the Borough of Burnley
    • House of Lords
    • 23 March 1977
    ... ... Borough of Burnley (Appellants) Cheapside Land Development Co. Limited and Others (Appellants) and ... In commercial contracts for the sale of goods prima facie a stipulated time of delivery is of the essence, ... ...
  • Anglia Television Ltd v Reed
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 29 July 1971
    ... ... Stanbury 1971 1 W.L.R. 535). There was a contract for the sale of land. In anticipation of the contract - and before it was concluded-the ... ...
  • Tiverton Estates Ltd v Wearwell Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 20 November 1973
    ... ... They had always understood that, on a sale of land, they could protect their clients by writing their letters ... ...
  • Rock Advertising Ltd v MWB Business Exchange Centres Ltd
    • Supreme Court
    • 16 May 2018
    ... ... Code introduced a general requirement of writing for contracts of sale above a specified value, coupled with a conditional provision giving ... form of agreement is prescribed by statute: contracts for the sale of land, certain regulated consumer contracts, and so on. There is no principled ... ...
  • Actionstrength Ltd (trading as Vital Resources) v International Glass Engineering in.GL.EN SpA and another
    • House of Lords
    • 03 April 2003
    ... ... five specified classes of agreement, relating to contracts for the sale or other disposition of land, this second mischief was mitigated by the ... ...
  • Stocznia Gdanska SA v Latvian Shipping Company and Others
    • House of Lords
    • 26 February 1998
    ... ... to complete the vessel and to sell the vessel at a public or private sale on such terms and conditions as the seller deems reasonable provided that ... as it is erected belongs to the building owner as the owner of the land on which it is being built ... 46 This submission was challenged by Mr ... ...
  • National Carriers Ltd v Panalpina (Northern) Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 11 December 1980
    ... ... the promise to pay the rent, and the applicability to the estate in land created by the demise of any such doctrine did not arise ... 12 It is ... of risk (recognised as regards chattels in section 7 of the former Sale of Goods Act 1893). But there is no difference between chattels in this ... ...
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