Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Company
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 1892 |
| Date | 1892 |
| Court | Queen's Bench Division |
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127 cases
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Bowerman v Association of British Travel Agents Ltd
... ... Strong reliance was placed on Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball CompanyELR ((1893) 1 QB 256), where ... ...
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Alrich Development Pte Ltd v Rafiq Jumabhoy (No 2)
... ... Pte Ltd (Alrich), are a property development company incorporated in 1980. The original shareholders were Lim ... prizes, and such contracts as that discussed in Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Co ... It is not strictly ... ...
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Tote Investors Ltd v Smoker
...special meaning to the words "gaming" and "wagering" in this statute. The classic definition was given by Mr Justice Hawkins in Carlill v. Carbolic Smoke Ball Co., 1892, 2 Queen's Bench, p. 490: "According to my view", he said, "a wagering contract is one by which two persons, professing to......
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Embourg Ltd v Tyler Group Ltd
... ... SOCIETYS GENERAL CONDITIONS OF SALE (1991) CARLILL V CARBOLIC SMOKEBALL CO 1893 1 QB 256 MULHALL V ... 12 For the vendor — Hooper and Company, 97 Upper George's Street, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin ... ...
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3 firm's commentaries
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The A.R.T. of Reinsurance in Bermuda: Recent Legal Developments
...from the other, and the other shall pay over or hand over to him, a sum of money or other stake Ö" Carlill v. Carbolic Smoke Ball Co. [1892] 2 QB 484, 490-491, per Hawkins J., cited with approval by Leggatt L.J. in City Index Ltd. v. Leslie [1991] BCLC The Insurance Amendment Act 1998: "des......
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Climbing Mount Improbable - bringing reason to the regulation of derivatives
...line of authority is both old and consistent, going back at least as far as the 19th century case of Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Co [1892] 2 QB 484 – a doleful case to recall in the sense that, 130 years on, we still have made no progress in the battles against either the 'flu or untenabl......
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Income Earned In Virtual Worlds: Taxation Issues
...the play ceases, taxation begins. Footnotes 1. 955 HMSO CMD 9474 Graham v Green [1925] 9 TC 309 Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Company [1892] 2 QB 484 http://www.cnnmoney.com, 9 March 2007 and http://www.theage.com.au, 31 October 2006 and elsewhere. http://www.telecomTV.com, 5 February 2007 ......
4 books & journal articles
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Insurance Law Reform by Degrees: Late Payment and Insurable Interest
...and pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (Solvency II) (recast),Chapter IV.77 Carlill vCarbolic Smoke Ball Company [1892] 2 QB 484, 490-491 per Hawkins J.78 As per the Association of British Insurers (ABI), cited by The Law Commission and the ScottishLaw Commission in CP 201......
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Fraud and money laundering: the evolving criminalization of corporate non‐compliance
...of the consumer. For example, could law students of thefuture be asked to consider the case of Carlisle v. Carbolic Smoke Ball Company [1892] 2QB 484, in a criminal context as the civil defence was that the company never reallyintended customers to believe or rely on the representation that......
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MORGAN GRENFELL & CO LTD V WELWYN HATFIELD DISTRICT COUNCIL (ISLINGTON LONDON BOROUGH COUNCIL, THIRD PARTY)
...will await the decision of the Lords with interest as it will have a very direct bearing on any settlement negotiations. REFERENCES 1 [1892] 2 QB 484 at 490-491. 2 At 491-492. 3 [1929] 2 Ch 1 at 2. 4 [1991] 1 All ER 545 at 549-550; 2 AC 1 at 23-24. 5 [1991] 3 All ER 180. 6 Strachan v Univer......
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Insurable interest in the law of marine insurance
...contractual party to the insurance contract and did not have an insurable interest. Conversely, the corporate veil merely disguised the 9[1892] 2 QB 484 at p 490. 10[1925] A.C. 619. 11Sharp v Sphere Drake Insurance (The Moonacre), [1992] 2 Lloyd's Rep. 501. 78 SSLR Insurable interest in the......