Allcard v Skinner
Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
Judgment Date | 1886 |
Date | 1886 |
Court | Chancery Division |
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314 cases
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Re The Estate of Brocklehurst, deceased
...different in nature from those proved to have existed in such 19th century classic cases as Huguenin v. Baseley (1807) 14 Vesey 273, Allcard v. Skinner (1883) 36 Chancery Division 145 and in the fairly recent case of in re Craig, (1971) Chancery 95. For me, this decides the 46Even if a rel......
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Lee Nellie v Wong Lai Kay
... ... long time before taking legal action, and her claim should be barred by laches, for her delay in asserting her right, and he cited Allcard v Skinner (1887) 36 Ch D 145. Her explanation for this, which I accept, was that for a long time the defendant did not actually refuse to retransfer ... ...
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Nature Resorts Ltd v First Citizens Bank Ltd
...of a transaction between A and B (or, in a three-party situation, between A and a third party, C). 11 Ever since Allcard v Skinner (1887) 36 Ch D 145, it has been commonplace to divide undue influence into two categories: actual and presumed. But in Etridge the House of Lords made clear tha......
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The Royal Bank of Scotland Plc v Chandra
...there can be no exhaustive definition of such means. The circumstances of human life are too varied to allow it. Lindley LJ observed in Allcard v Skinner (1887) 36 Ch D 145 at 183 that “no court has ever attempted to define undue influence”, to which Lord Clyde added in Etridge at para 92, ......
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26 books & journal articles
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Subject Index
...Kingdom, ApplicationNo. 48539/99, 5 November 2002.................................................. 137–41Allcard v Skinner [1887] LR 36 ChD 145....................................... 224, 225, 233Anderson v Liberty Lobby, Inc., 477 US242 (1986) ...........................................9A......
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English Influences on the Historical Development of Fiduciary Duties in Scottish Law
...Ch D 500; Hoblyn v Hoblyn (1889) LR 41 Ch D 200; Liles (n 90) at 683 per Lord Esher MR. See also the infamous Allcard v Skinner (1887) LR 36 Ch D 145, accepted as Scottish law by Gloag: W M Gloag, The Law of Contract, 2nd edn (1929) 528. The next stage of development was to be with respect ......
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Table of cases
...(4th) 1, 2000 CanLII 22477 (Ont. S.C.J.) ................................................................. 220 Allcard v. Skinner (1887), 36 Ch. D. 145 (C.A.) ..........................................209, 214 Alnu Electric Ltd. v. CIBC Mortgage Corp. (1995), 165 N.B.R. (2d) 149, 424 A.P.R.......
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VITIATING FACTORS IN CONTRACT LAW — THE INTERACTION OF THEORY AND PRACTICE
...under the Sub-Section entitled “Linkages Amongst Economic Duress, Undue Influence and Unconscionability”, infra. 234 See ibid. 235 (1887) 36 ChD 145. 236 Sec the Sub-Section entitled “Linkages Amongst the Categories of Undue Influence”, infra. 237 [1996] 2 SLR 379. 238 This is, of course, t......
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