Horlock v Beal
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 21 January 1916 |
| Date | 21 January 1916 |
| Court | House of Lords |
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41 cases
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Davis Contractors Ltd v Fareham Urban District Council
...hard to account for certain decisions of this House in this way. I cannot think that a reasonable man in the position of the seaman in Horlock v. Beal [1916] 1 A.C. 486 would readily have agreed that the wages payable to his wife should stop if his ship was caught in Germany at the outbreak......
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Barras v Aberdeen Steam Trawling and Fishing Company
...case of a wooden ship, as 'a congeries of planks.'" 8 This case was referred to later in the opinions given in this House in the case of Horlock v. Beal, 1916, 1 A.C. 486, without any expression of disapproval though without expressed assent. 9 The Respondents here have based the main part......
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2 books & journal articles
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Frustration
...by reason of the failure to hold the naval review there was a total failure of consideration.” 61 See, for example, Horlock v Beal , [1916] 1 AC 486 at 513 (HL), Lord Shaw of Dunfermline [ Horlock v Beal ]. 62 See, for example, Capital Quality Homes , above note 33 at 390, Evans JA; Veritas......
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Frustration of purpose and the French Contract Law reform
...e Ricerche di Diritto Comparato e Straniero, 1996).70. G.H. Treitel, Frustration and Force Majeure, p. 257.71. (UK) Horlock v. Beal, (1916) 1 A.C. 486, 499.72. R. Stone, J. Devenney and R. Cunnington, Text, Cases and Materials on Contract Law, p. 486.73. (UK) Davis Contractors Ltd v. Fareha......