Knutsford (SS) Ltd v Tillmanns & Company

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1908
Year1908
CourtCourt of Appeal

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    • High Court (Malaysia)
    • 1 January 1983
  • Chain Wen Wei v Minister for Justice and The Commissioner of an Garda Siochana
    • Ireland
    • Supreme Court
    • 19 December 2024
    ...words, from which some unifying principle can be deduced. As it was put by Farwell L.J. in Tillmanns & Co v SS Knutsford Limited [1908] 2 KB 385, 403: “Unless you can find a category there is no room for the application of the ejusdem generis doctrine”. The principle is noscitur a sociis, ......
  • Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd v Lufthansa Technik AG
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 10 July 2020
    ...admission to (or expulsion from a committee) or the exercise of a discretion under a time charterparty: see Tillmanns & Co. v. SS. Knutsford, Limited [1908] 2 K.B. 385 (a time charterparty case), Weinberger v. Inglis [1919] A.C. 606 (a committee membership case), Government of The Republic ......
  • Bulk Ship Union SA (Applicant/Claimant) v Clipper Bulk Shipping Ltd (Respondent/Defendant)
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 26 June 2012
    ...a clause in his bill of lading and then proceeding to act upon it' (see to the same effect Lord Justice Kennedy in the Court of Appeal [1908] 2/K.B. 385 at pages 406 to 407). Secondly, any error which the master made in this connection was not an error in the navigation or management of the......
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2 books & journal articles
  • General Principles of Interpretation
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books The Law of Contracts. Third Edition Interpretation of Agreements
    • 4 August 2020
    ...AC 351 (HL) [ Glynn ]. 111 Consolidated Bathurst Export , above note 2 at 59. 112 See, for example, Tillmanns & Co v SS Knutsford Ltd , [1908] 2 KB 385 at 402, Farwell LJ (“there is a presumption that business men do not intend to do anything absurd, which is some slight guide; but in all c......
  • General Principles of Interpretation
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Archive The Law of Contracts Part Five
    • 1 September 2005
    ...for claims by the insured — otherwise 71 Ibid. at 58. 72 Ibid. at 59. 73 See, for example, Tillmanns & Co . v. S.S. Knutsford Ltd ., [1908] 2 K.B. 385 at 402, Farwell L.J. (“there is a presumption that business men do not intend to do anything absurd, which is some slight guide; but in all ......