Coburn v Colledge
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 1897 |
| Date | 1897 |
| Year | 1897 |
| Court | Court of Appeal |
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138 cases
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Times Newspapers Ltd v Chohan
...could not be enforceable until the debt was quantified. 29 Mr Lamacraft sought to rebut that submission using the conclusion reached in Coburn v Colledge (1897) QBD 702. In that case the Court of Appeal concluded that the cause of action accrued when the solicitor did his work even though h......
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Central Electricity Board v Halifax Corporation
...succeed. This depends on what is meant by a cause of action accruing. 12 Both parties founded on the judgment of Lord Esher, M.R. in Coburn v. Colledge [1897] 1 Q.B. 702, and I am content for the purposes of this case to apply the test which he there states. First he quotes (p. 706) a defin......
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Payment limitation periods for works and services
...that the cause of action arises at the time of completion of the work. The judge considered the leading authority of Coburn v Colledge [1897] 1 QB 702, in which Lord Esher MR stated that in the case of a "who does work for another person at his request on the terms that he is to be paid for......