Goodinson v Goodinson

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1954
Year1954
CourtCourt of Appeal
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  • Lobb (Alec) (Garages) Ltd v Total Oil (Great Britain) Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • November 8, 1984
    ...however the present case. I find the most helpful test in the judgment of Somervell L.J. in Bennett v. Bennett (1952) 1 KB 249, and Goodinson v. Goodinson (1954) 2 QB 118. In the former case at page 254 he posed the question whether the invalid promise was the whole or main consideration fo......
  • Williams v Williams
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal
    • December 14, 1956
    ...it is too late near to argue that, as a document in almost exactly the same form was regarded as valid in this Court in a case of Goodinson v. Goodinson (reported in 1954, 2 Queen's Bench, page 113). Clause 2 of the agreement that we are consideringprovides that "The Wife will out of the sa......
  • Warwick (Andrea) v Trustee in Bankruptcy of Clive Graham Yarwood
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • September 13, 2010
    ...2 All ER 1146, [1980] AC 546, [1979] 3 WLR 390, PC. Edgar v Edgar [1980] 3 All ER 887, [1980] 1 WLR 1410, CA. Goodinson v Goodinson [1954] 2 All ER 255, [1954] 2 QB 118, [1954] 2 WLR 1121, CA. Gould v Gould [1969] 3 All ER 728, [1970] 1 QB 275, [1969] 3 WLR 490, CA. Hyman v Hyman [1929] AC ......
  • Soulsbury v Soulsbury
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • October 10, 2007
    ...the sole or main consideration the covenant sought to be enforced by the wife was void and unenforceable. 20 By way of contrast, in Goodinson v. Goodinson [1954] 2 Q.B. 118 the wife covenanted, so long as the weekly payments of maintenance for herself and the child were punctually made, not......
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