Boissevain v Weil
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 1948 |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Year | 1948 |
| Date | 1948 |
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59 cases
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Abdul Shukor v Hood Mohamed
...or otherwise, which if made de facto, it would inexorably avoid. This dictumwas approved by the House of Lords in Boissevain v Weil [1950] AC 327. The dictum must, in my view, be applied in the present case.If, on the other hand, the action for money, had and received is based on the theory......
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Morrell (Gifford), Morell (Fiona) v Workers Savings and Loan Bank
...climate. The rigours of the old Defence Regulations and its successor, the Exchange Control Act as manifested in such a case as Boissevan v Weil [1950] AC 327 are now history. There is a residue of control in the new law, by way of criminal offences, but control of prosecutions lie with th......
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L.T.D. Surveying and Engineering Ltd v Francis et Al
...C.A.) instead of a claim upon the contract Boissevain v. Weil [1949] 1 K.B. 482 C.A. on appeal [1950] A.C. 397 H.L. at pp. 335, 341; [1950] 1 All E.R. 728 at pp. 730, 734. 457 The plaintiffs framing of their claim for “work and labour performed at the request of the defendants” assumes sig......
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6 books & journal articles
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CONTRACTUAL ILLEGALITY AND CONFLICT OF LAWS
...1939, regulation 2 as amended by Statutory Regulations & Orders 1940, No. 1484 as interpreted by the House of Lords in Boissevain v. Weil[1950] A.C. 327 at 343. 91 Chapter 33, 1985 Edition, Singapore Statutes as amended by the Carriage of Goods by Sea (Amendment) Act 1995 which came into ef......
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Restatement (Third) of Restitution and Unjust Enrichment, vols.1-2.
...'unjustified enrichment' approach: Peter Birks, Unjust Enrichment (Oxford University Press, 2003) ch 5. (29) See, eg, Boissevain v Well [1950] AC 327, 335-6 (Lord Simonds); Reading v A-G [1951] AC 507, 513-14 (Lord Porter). While Viscount Simon LC and Lord Atkin did refer to the First Resta......
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The Conflict of Laws and Statutes: The International Operational of Legislation Dealing With Matters of Civil Law in the United Kingdom and Australia
...Singapore Pte Ltd vBP Shipping Ltd [1966] 1 Lloyds Rep 286, 297; and Dicey andMorris, n 13 above, 15–17, 21–25.143 cf Boissevain vWeil [1950] AC 327 and C.F. Forsyth, Private international law: the modernRoman-Dutch law including the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court (Cape Town: Juta & Co, ......
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Payment for devaluation: caribbean judgments in foreign currency
...30. For example, there has been significant relaxation of the regime in Jamaica and in Trinidad and Tobago, but not yet in Barbados. 31. [1950] AC 327. Perhaps the war time and emergency context in which the legislation was meant to apply influenced its interpretation. In any event it is ce......
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