Kendall v Hamilton
Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
Judgment Date | 1878 |
Court | House of Lords |
Year | 1878 |
Date | 1878 |
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72 cases
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Republic of India and Another v India Steamship Company Ltd (Indian Endurance and Indian Grace)
...transit in rem judicatam: see King v. Hoare (1844) 13 M. & W. 494, 504, per Parke B., cited by Lord Penzance and Lord Blackburn in Kendall v. Hamilton (1879) 4 App. Cas. 504, 526 and 16The distinction between cause of action estoppel and issue estoppel on the one hand, and the principle of ......
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Joanna Elizabeth Birdseye and Another v Roythorne & Company and Others
...exist he does have that right to make that choice which the law gives him." Similarly, Slade LJ said (at 500): "Lord Blackburn in Kendall v. Hamilton, 4 App.Cas. 504, 542, said, 'there cannot be election until there is knowledge of the right to elect.' For the reasons given by Stephenson a......
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4 books & journal articles
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Insolvency : caput 4
...The Bankr uptcy (Scot-land) Act 1985 provides that where a partnership creditor claims 281 Drake Law of Partnership (1983) 285.282 (1879) 4 App Cas 504 (HL).283 Sections 9, 10, 11 and 12.284 Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 1985 Schedule 1 section 6; Review Commit-tee 1982: 379. See also Scottish ......
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DEMYSTIFYING THE RIGHT OF ELECTION IN CONTRACT LAW
...Darnley”), at 57. 21 What was meant by “circumstances” was interpreted in Peyman v Lanjani[1985] Ch 457 as knowledge of the rights. 22 (1879) 4 App Cas 504 (“Kendall”) at 542. 23 Supra n 13 (“Young”), at 176. 24 Supra n 14 (“Evans”), at 476. 25 Supra n 21 (“Peyman”). 26 Ibid, at 487. 27 Id,......
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Criticism, Review and Abrogation of the Jingle Rule in Partnership Insolvency: A Comparative Perspective
...to the firm’s creditors pari passu with the individual’s creditors for11Charles D Drake Law of Partnership 3 ed (1983) at 285.12(1879) 4 App Cas 504 (HL).13See ss 9 to 12 of the Partnership Act 1890 (53 & 54 Victch 39).14Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 1985 (c 66) sched 1, s 6. See also Scottish......
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Selected Judgments
...concede that the rule can be changed in England only by the House of Lords. As long ago as 1879, Lord Cairns, LC in Kendall v Hamilton (1879) 4 App Cas 504 at p. 514 stated:-“Now, I take it to be clear that where an agent contracts in his own name for an undisclosed principal, the person wi......