Houghton & Company v Nothard, Lowe & Wills Ltd
Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
Date | 1926 |
Year | 1926 |
Court | Court of Appeal |
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39 cases
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David Dully v Athlone Town Stadium Ltd
...As the authorities cited in support of this proposition ( Underwood Ltd. v. Bank of Liverpool & Martins [1924] 1 KB 775, Houghton & Co. v. Nothard Lowe and Wills Ltd. [1927] 1 KB 246) make clear, the point being made is that where the nature of a transaction is such that an outsider shoul......
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AMP Advisory & Management Partners A.G. v Force India Formula One Team Ltd ((in Liquidation))
...his favour that things are rightly done if the inquiry that he ought to make would tell him that they were wrongly done. Similarly, Houghton [1927] 1 KB 246 and Rolled Steel [1986] Ch 246 involved an attempt by a third party to rely on the indoor management rule. The attempt failed in both ......
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Armagas Ltd v Mundogas SA (The Ocean Frost)
...or abnormal the employee's transaction is. This approach to the problem is not without support from judicial authority. 31In Houghton & Co. v. Nothard, Lowe & Willis, (1927) 1 KB 246, the Court of Appeal held that a company director's agreement to apply the money of one company in payment ......
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East Asia Company Ltd v PT Satria Tirtatama Energindo
...to “go smoothly round”. However, Mr Todd did not question the following well-known passage in the judgment of Sargant LJ in Houghton & Co v Nothard, Lowe & Wills Ltd [1927] 1 KB 246, 266 in which he explained that the rule does not permit a third party to circumvent the normal rules of age......
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3 books & journal articles
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Die Turquand-reël : hoofstuk 7
...(Mangal) Ltd 1964 1 All ER 630 (CA).65 ’n Tipiese voorbeeld hiervan kan gevind word in Houghton and Co v Norhard Lowe and Wills 1927 1 KB 246 (CA).66 1948 3 SA 831 A.67 Waar ’n persoon wat byvoorbeeld geldiglik aangestel is buitengewone bevoegdhede 167egter ook in Suid-Afrika dat die howe i......
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The Turquand rule in South African company law: A(nother) suggested solution
...maatskappy-funksionarisse’ (1991) 3 SAMLJ 281 at 301; Delport op cit note 1 at135.8 Houghton and Co v Northard, Lowe and Wills 1927 (1) K.B. 246 at 266–7; Wolpert supra note 6 at 20; Delport op cit note 1 at 135; Du Plessis op cit note 7 at 301–2; Locke op cit note 3 at 169. 9 R Jooste ‘Ob......
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Analyses: Contracting with Business Trusts
...was graphically illustrated as long ago as 1927 by two decisions of the Court of Appeal: Houghton & Co v Nothard, Lowe & Wills Ltd ([1927] 1 KB 246 (CA), especially at 266-7) and Kreditbank Cassel GmbH v Schenkers Ltd ([1927] 1 KB 826 (CA), especially at 842-3). The consequence of this aber......