Holwell Securities Ltd v Hughes

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1973
Year1973
CourtChancery Division
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10 cases
  • Newcastle Upon Tyne NHS Foundation Trust v Sandi Haywood
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 17 March 2017
    ...is needed, irrespective of the question whether it reaches its intended destination. For example in Holwell Securities Ltd v Hughes [1974] 1 WLR 155 an option to buy property was exercisable by "notice" in writing. Notice was posted to the grantor of the option but it never arrived. Russel......
  • WX Investments Ltd v Begg
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 13 May 2002
    ...and unworkable. 17 This view of section 196(4) seems to be supported by the earlier authorities. In Holwell Securities v. Hughes [1973] 1 WLR 757 Templeman J described the machinery of the subsection in these terms: "the significance of s 196 is this: it assumes that when a notice is requir......
  • Woodbine (Dennis) v Ebanks (John)
    • Jamaica
    • Court of Appeal (Jamaica)
    • 20 December 2004
    ...effective by the fact of posting or by reliance on statutory provisions, it is usually so stipulated ( Holwell Securities Ltd v Hughes [1974] 1 W.L.R. 155 ). 60 Because of its very nature, it seems to me that the purported verbal exercise of the option to purchase, would not be an adequate......
  • Lim Eng Heng v Lim Sam Keow
    • Malaysia
    • High Court (Malaysia)
    • 1 January 2003
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