Henderson, Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China v The Comptoir d'Escompte de Paris

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Judgment Date1865
Date1865
CourtPrivy Council
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13 cases
  • JI MacWilliam Company Inc. v Mediterranean Shipping Company Sa (the Rafaela S)
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 16 February 2005
    ...This was capable of applying to the holders of straight bills. 10 In C P Henderson & Co v The Comptoir d'Escompte de Paris (1873) LR 5 PC 253 the Privy Council considered a straight bill. The decision was that a bill not drawn to order or assigns was not a negotiable instrument. But it is n......
  • Parsons Corporation v C v Scheepvaartonderneming Happy Ranger
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 17 May 2002
    ...is no case which decides this point; some of the text books are written by the same authors and others rely on one another. Henderson v The Comptoir D'Escompte (1873) LR 5 PC 253 is only authority for the proposition that a bill naming a consignee which does not contain the words "or order ......
  • Soproma SPA v Marine and Animal by-Products Corpn
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • Invalid date
  • J I MacWilliam Company Inc. v Mediterranean Shipping Company SA
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 16 April 2003
    ...contractual rights and liabilities under the bill of lading passed to him as well as the property in the goods? 39 In C P Henderson & Co v. The Comptoir D'Escompte de Paris (1873–74) LR 5 PC 253 the Privy Council had to consider a "bill of lading…in the usual form, with this difference, th......
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