Jervis v Harris
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 09 November 1995 |
| Date | 09 November 1995 |
| Court | Court of Appeal (Civil Division) |
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44 cases
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Fujitsu Services Ltd v IBM United Kingdom Ltd
...A debt is not such a loss. The distinction between a claim for damages and a claim for debt is explained clearly in Jervis v Harris [1996] Ch 195 at 202 F-H : " The law of contract draws a clear distinction between a claim for payment of a debt and a claim for damages for breach of contract......
- Ng Chin Tai, Trading in the Name and Style of Lean Seh Fishery and Another v Ananda Kumar Krishnan
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Ulster Bank Ireland Ltd, Paul McCann and Patrick Dillon v Brian McDonagh, Kenneth McDonagh and Maurice McDonagh
.... The distinction between a claim for debt and a claim for recovery of damages was explained in precisely these terms by Millett LJ. in Jervis v. Harris [1996] 1 All ER 303, at p. 307 as follows: ‘ The law of contract draws a clear distinction between a claim for payment of a debt and a cl......
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Standard Chartered Bank v Dorchester LNG (2) Ltd
... ... The corresponding passage in the 27 th edition of Chitty , which was in materially identical terms, was approved by this court in Jervis v Harris [1996] Ch. 195 , per Millett L.J. at page 202G. This suggests that a claim for money due under a letter of credit following presentation of ... ...
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1 firm's commentaries
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Dilapidations Claims - A New Regime?
...If the lease includes a "self-help" clause the landlord is entitled to carry out the work and recover the costs (see Jervis v. Harris [1996] 1 EGLR 78) - costs of the repairs is a debt due under the lease; not a claim for damages under the Act. Because the tenant knows that this remedy can ......
3 books & journal articles
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Table of Cases
...All ER 189, [1995] 1 EGLR 146, CA 52, 184 Table of Cases xvii Jay v Jay [1924] 1 KB 826, 93 LJKB 280, 130 LT 667, KBD 68 Jervis v Harris [1996] Ch 195, [1996] 2 WLR 220, [1996] 1 All ER 303, CA 51 Jeune v Queen’s Cross Properties Ltd [1974] Ch 97, [1973] 3 WLR 378, [1973] 3 All ER 97, ChD 1......
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Clark v. Macourt: defective sperm and performance substitutes in the High Court of Australia.
...Reclassified (Oxford University Press, 2005) 67. (92) For recent, unequivocal judicial support for this proposition, see Jervis v Harris [1996] Ch 195, 202 (Millett (93) Ibid 202. (94) The development of the action in 'assumpsit' out of 'trespass on the case' is traced in J H Baker, An Intr......
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Right of Re-entry
...The tenant also argued that he was being harassed by enforcement of the repairing covenant when there was no injury to the interest of 12 [1996] Ch 195. 52 Positive Covenants and Freehold Land the person entering – in that case the landlord. The Court of Appeal saw no objection to the landl......