Unilateral Contract in UK Law
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Daulia Ltd v Four Millbank Nominees Ltd
... ... for sale and purchase, but they claim they did obtain a unilateral contract by the first defendants that they would enter into a written ... ...
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United Scientific Holdings Ltd v Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the County Borough of Burnley now The Council of the Borough of Burnley
... ... them, either on the one hand as conferring upon the landlord a unilateral "option" for the exercise of which time was of the essence, or on the ... in separate judgments held that the commercial character of the contract contained in a lease incorporating a rent review clause raised the ... ...
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Williams v Roffey Bros & Nicholls (Contractors) Ltd
... ... are building contractors who in September 1985 had entered into a contract with Shepherds Bush Housing Association Ltd. to refurbish a block of flats ... the father's promise in this case as what is sometimes called a unilateral contract, a promise in return for an act, a promise by the father to pay ... ...
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FSHC Group Holdings Ltd v Glas Trust Corporation Ltd
... ... correct test to apply in deciding whether the written terms of a contract may be rectified because of a common mistake. Introduction ... Leaving aside for the time being cases of rectification for unilateral mistake, establishing new contractual rights and obligations in this way ... ...
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Geys v Societe Generale, London Branch
... ... amounting to more than €12.5m and to damages for breach of contract. The Bank's case is that the appellant is entitled to a termination ... [under a break clause in a lease] belong to the general class of unilateral notices served under contractual rights reserved, eg notices to quit, ... ...
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Mary Elizabeth Errington (Widow) v Mary Dougan Errington (Married Woman) and Edith Annie Wood (Spinster)
... ... One can imagine on ordinary contract of sole in which the purchase price was payable by installments over a ... The father's promise was a unilateral contract – a promise of the house in return for their wet of paying the ... ...
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Homburg Houtimport BV v Agrosin Private Ltd (Starsin)
... ... has been signed 33 IDENTITY OF CARRIER The Contract evidenced by this Bill of Lading is between the Merchant and the Owner of ... He seems to have preferred the view that there was a unilateral contract or offer by the shipper which became mutual when accepted by ... ...
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Mannai Investment Company Ltd v Eagle Star Life Assurance Company Ltd
... ... in the applicable clause, failing which it will not under the contract be effective for its purpose. On its true construction it could not be ... commercial contracts, is by analogy of assistance in respect of unilateral notices such as those under consideration in the present case. Relying on ... ...
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Marley v Rawlings and another
... ... 19 When interpreting a contract, the court is concerned to find the intention of the party or parties, and ... Thus, the court takes the same approach to interpretation of unilateral notices as it takes to interpretation of contracts — see Mannai ... ...
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Shogun Finance Ltd v Hudson
... ... the effect of fraudulent misrepresentation on the formation of a contract. If a crook (C) fraudulently represents to the owner of goods (O) that he ... in the textbooks as an example of a contract which is void for unilateral mistake, but this was not the basis of the decision. The word "mistake" ... ...
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