Allcard v Skinner

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date1886
Date1886
Year1886
CourtChancery Division
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335 cases
  • Re The Estate of Brocklehurst, deceased
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 30 June 1977
    ...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......
  • Lee Nellie v Wong Lai Kay
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 8 March 1990
    ... ... 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 ... ...
  • Lloyd's Bank Ltd v Bundy
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 30 July 1974
    ...third category is that of "undue influence" usually so called. These are divided into two classes as stated by Lord Justice Cotton in Allcard v. Skinner (1887) 36 Ch. D. at page 171. The first are those where the stronger has been guilty of some fraud or wrongful act - expressly so as to ga......
  • The Royal Bank of Scotland Plc v Chandra
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 28 January 2010
    ...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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28 books & journal articles
  • English Influences on the Historical Development of Fiduciary Duties in Scottish Law
    • United Kingdom
    • Edinburgh University Press Edinburgh Law Review No. , January 2014
    • 1 January 2014
    ...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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    • United Kingdom
    • Sage International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The No. 7-4, December 2003
    • 1 December 2003
    ...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......
  • Bank and Customer Relationships
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Archive Bank and Customer Law in Canada
    • 8 September 2007
    ...customer. 114 As a result of the increasing complexity and possibly 113 Ibid . at 705, Lord Scarman approving Allcard v. Skinner (1887), 36 Ch. D. 145 at 182–83 (C.A.), Lindley L.J. 114 Avon Finance Co . v. Bridger , [1985] 2 All E.R. 281 (C.A.); Cornish v. Midland Bank plc , [1985] 3 All E......
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    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Bank and Customer Law in Canada. Second Edition
    • 19 June 2013
    ...(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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