Consolidated Company v Curtis

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1892
CourtQueen's Bench Division
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8 cases
  • Marcq v Christie Manson and Woods Ltd (t/a Christie's)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 23 May 2003
    ...converted, because by their acts they merely purport to change the position of the goods and not the property in them. 19 Consolidated Co. v Curtis & Son (1892) 1 QB 495 was another case of an auctioneer who sold and delivered goods the subject of a bill of sale. Collins J. held that an ......
  • Willis (R H.) and Son v British Car Auctions Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 13 January 1978
    ...the goods or the purchaser in acquiring them; see Barker v. Furlong (1891) 2 Chancery at page 181 by Mr. Justice Romer and Consolidated Co. v. Curtis & Son (1892) 1 Queen's Bench 495. This state of the lawhas been considered by the Law Reform Committee in its 12th Report (1966) Command 2958......
  • Marcq v Christie Manson and Woods Ltd (t/a Christie's)
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • 29 October 2002
    ...to the consignor of the goods, is not liable to the true owner, is plainly wrong. The case was carefully analysed by Collins j in Consolidated Co v Curtis [1892] 1 QB 495 at 502.3. The defendant was a cattle salesman who received a cow for sale from a man named Phillips. The cow was subject......
  • JH Rayner (Mincing Lane) Ltd v Teck Hock & Company (Pte) Ltd and Others
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 30 December 1989
    ...744. But a mere contract for sale, without a transfer of possession by a non-owner, is not a conversion: Consolidated Co v Curtis & Son [1892] 1 QB 495 at p 498. Schmitthoff`s Export Trade (7th Ed) at p 21 states: Under the FOB clause the cost of loading the goods into the ship has to be bo......
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  • Table of cases
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Personal Property Security Law - Third Edition
    • 26 July 2022
    ...................................................................................................707 Consolidated Company v Curtis & Son, [1892] 1 QB 495 .................................747 Consolidated Equipment Sales, Inc v First Bank & Trust Co of Guthrie, 627 P 2d 432 (Okla 1981) ............
  • Remedies
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Personal Property Security Law - Third Edition
    • 26 July 2022
    ...a view to passing property in them is liable for conversion. See Barker v Furlong, [1891] 2 Ch 72; Consolidated Company v Curtis & Son , [1892] 1 QB 495. See also S Green & J Randall, The Tort of Conversion (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2009) at 51–52. 359 Livestock Identiication and Commerce A......

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