Frost v Knight

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1872
CourtExchequer Division
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4 cases
  • Goh Hooi Yin v Lim Teong Ghee
    • Malaysia
    • High Court (Malaysia)
    • 1 Enero 1990
  • Eminence Property Developments Ltd v Heaney
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 21 Octubre 2010
    ...founded upon considerations of convenience and the opportunities which it affords for mitigating loss, as observed by Cockburn C.J. in Frost v. Knight (1872) L.R. 7 Ex. 111, 114. It enables one party to a contract, when faced with a clear indication by the other that he does not intend to p......
  • Scammell (G.) & Nephew Ltd v Ouston (H. C. & J. G.)
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 16 Diciembre 1940
    ...in that situation the Respondents could sue for damages for anticipatory breach without the necessity of the condition being fulfilled. Frost v. Knight, L.R. 7 Ex. 114, where the engagement to marry was conditional on the defendant's father first dying, and where the repudiation of the prom......
  • Scammell (G.) & Nephew Ltd v Ouston (H. C. & J. G.)
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 16 Diciembre 1940
    ...in that situation the Respondents could sue for damages for anticipatory breach without the necessity of the condition being fulfilled. Frost v. Knight, L.R. 7 Ex. 114, where the engagement to marry was conditional on the defendant's father first dying, and where the repudiation of the prom......

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