Subject to Contract in UK Law

  • Tiverton Estates Ltd v Wearwell Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 20 November 1973
    ... ... land, they could protect their clients by writing their letters "subject to contract". Law v. Jones shattered this belief. To the minds of ... ...
  • Law v Jones
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 10 April 1973
    ... ... 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 freehold ... with his proposed purchase of the above property for £6,500 subject to contract. We have been instructed on behalf of the vendor and we are ... ...
  • 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 ... he has imposed and short of that he is not bound, that must be subject to one important qualification, which stems from the fact that there must ... ...
  • RTS Flexible Systems Ltd v Molkerei Alois Muller GmbH & Company KG
    • Supreme Court
    • 21 July 2010
    ... ... The claim was brought by RTS for "money due under a contract, alternatively damages". A number of issues arose between the parties and ... As to terms, the argument centres on whether the contract was subject to some or all of the MF/1 terms as amended by agreement. Müller submits ... ...
  • Sharma and another v Simposh Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 23 November 2011
    ... ... provides: "(1) A contract for the sale or other disposition of an interest in land can only be made ... Law of Restitution 7 th ed, 2007, begins its treatment of the subject with this important statement of general principle (para 19–001): ... ...
  • Yeoman's Row Management Ltd and another v Cobbe
    • House of Lords
    • 30 July 2008
    ... ... in principle" on the core terms of the sale but no written contract, or even a draft contract for discussion, is produced. There remain some ... April 1998, the property was transferred to the appellant company subject to Mrs Lisle-Mainwaring's long lease and to the tenancies of the other ... ...
  • Walford and Others v Miles and Another
    • House of Lords
    • 23 January 1992
    ... ... Martin Walford faxed a letter expressly headed "subject to contract" to Mr. Randall of Messrs. Tarlo Lyons Randall Rose, the ... ...
  • Luxor (Eastbourne) Ltd v Cooper
    • House of Lords
    • 12 December 1940
    ... ... Colonel Burton agreed "subject to contract," and gave evidence at the trial that his Company, the London ... ...
  • Mclaughlin (Respondent/Claimant) Duffill (Appellant/Defendant)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 26 November 2008
    ... ... District Judge Khan made an order for specific performance of a contract which he found to have been made on 14 July 2006 between the claimant, Mr ... that she had agreed to sell the property at £115,000, but “subject to contract”. But she denied that she had ever authorised Ms Dean to ... ...
  • Rock Advertising Ltd v MWB Business Exchange Centres Ltd
    • Supreme Court
    • 16 May 2018
    ... ... litigation rarely raises truly fundamental issues in the law of contract. This appeal is exceptional. It raises two of them. The first is whether a ... “need not be concluded in or evidenced by writing and is not subject to any other requirement as to form.” Nonetheless, article 29(2) ... ...
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