Harrington v Victoria Dock Company
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 1877 |
| Year | 1877 |
| Date | 1877 |
| Court | Divisional Court |
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4 cases
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Boulting v Association of Cinematograph, Television and Allied Technicians
...because this principle of equity was infringed, therefore the bargain was corrupt and void, depended largely on two cases, Harrington v. Victoria Graving Dock, 3 .B.D., 549, and Kregor v. Holling 109 L.T., 226. In the former case the bargain was corrupt because it was corrupt in the ordinar......
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Frances Elizabeth Wood v Commercial First Business Ltd
...case of fraud, and bribery was treated as a species of fraud; see, for example, Smith v Sorby (1875), reported with Harrington v The Victoria Graving Dock Co (1878) 3 QBD 549. 100 In Mahesan, Lord Diplock treated rescission as being given as an equitable remedy: “…the giving of the bribe wa......
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PT International Nickel Indonesia v General Trading Corp (M) Sdn Bhd
...and it cannot form the basis of a claim before the courts (see Bone v Ekless 157 ER 1450 and Harrington v Victoria Graving Dock Co (1878) 3 QBD 549).Here the respondents are suing for a price which the appellants allege was fraudulently agreed between them and the appellants` dishonest serv......
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Crabb et al. v. Ellis, [2009] O.T.C. Uned. 792
...actio applies. The nearest case I have been able to find in the English Courts is that of Harrington v. Victoria Graving Dock Co. (1878), 3 Q.B.D. 549, 47 L.J., Q.B. 594. In that case, though the jury found that the contract sued upon had not, in effect, influenced the employee in his relat......
2 books & journal articles
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CONTRACTUAL ILLEGALITY AND CONFLICT OF LAWS
...The Court of Appeal relied on English authorities, viz., Bone v. Ekless157 E.R. 1450 and Harrington v. Victoria Graving Dock Company(1878) 3 Q.B.D. 549. See also the Prevention of Corruption Act, Chapter 241, 1985 Revised Edition of the Singapore Statutes. 194 [1993] 3 S.L.R. 837. 195 Ibid.......
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Illegality
...Apthorp v Neville & Co (1907), 23 TLR 575 (KB). 11 Berg v Sadler and Moore , [1937] 2 KB 158. 12 Harrington v Victoria Graving Dock Co (1878), 3 QBD 549. See also H Lauterpacht, “Contracts to Break a Contract” (1936) 52 Law Q Rev 494. Illegality 503 an agreement intended to induce a hockey ......