Household Fire Insurance Company v Grant
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1878 |
| Court | Court of Appeal |
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15 cases
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Newcastle Upon Tyne NHS Foundation Trust v Sandi Haywood
...instantaneous communication such as telex or telephone the contract is complete only on receipt. She relied on the citation of Household Fire Insurance Co v. Grant (1789) 4 Ex D 216 in which Thesiger LJ said that the balance of convenience dictates that a contract shall be deemed complete w......
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Port Sudan Cotton Company v Govindaswamy Chettiar & Sons (Barbara, Varvara)
...cable their agreement. The contract was concluded when the Indian buyers posted their letter of 2nd July, 1973, in India: see Household Fire Assurance v. Grant (1879) 4 Exchequer Division 216. 33 This view is strikingly confirmed by the subsequent conduct of the parties, particularly the ca......
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Brinkibon Ltd v Stahag Stahl und Stahlwarenhandelgesellschaft m.b.H.
...the letter accepting it had been actually received: and its foundation in convenience was restated by Thesiger L.J. in Household Fire Insurance Co. Ltd. v. Grant (1879) 4 Ex.D. 216, 223. In these cases too it seems logical to say that the place, as well as the time, of acceptance should be ......
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Table of cases
...452 Household Fire & Carriage Accident Insurance Company v. Grant (1879), 4 Ex. D. 216 (C.A.) .......................................................................... 270 Howard, Re (1923), [1924] 1 D.L.R. 1062, 54 O.L.R. 109, [1923] O.J. No. 19 (H.C.)...........................................
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Offer and Acceptance
...the point at which communication becomes effective. As we shall see, 156 151 Household Fire & Carriage Accident Insurance Co v Grant (1879), 4 Ex D 216 (CA) [ Household Fire & Carriage ]. 152 [1892] 2 Ch 27. 153 Ibid at 33. 154 Stevenson, Jacques , above note 73; Carow Towing Co v The “Ed M......
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Contract
...new rules apply in all cases before the English courts, not just those 2 Household Fire & Carriage Accident Insurance Company v. Grant (1879), 4 Ex. D. 216 at 221. 3 In Amin Rasheed Shipping Corp. v. Kuwait Insurance Co. , [1984] A.C. 50 (H.L.) [ Amin Rasheed ], Lord Diplock referred to the......
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CONTRACT FORMATION AND MISTAKE IN CYBERSPACE — THE SINGAPORE EXPERIENCE
...Publishing, 2004) at para 1.04[2][d]. 62 See supra nn 57—60. 63 See supra n 57. 64 See supra nn 58—59. 65 See supra n 2, at [98]. 66 (1879) 4 Ex D 216 (“Household Fire”) per Thesiger LJ at 221. 67 See Treitel, supra n 27, at p 25. 68 See per Thesiger LJ, supra n 66, at 223. 69 See per Thesi......