Maskell v Horner

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1915
Year1915
CourtCourt of Appeal
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109 cases
  • BP Oil International Ltd v Target Shipping Ltd [QBD (Comm)]
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 14 June 2012
    ...because he considers it in his commercial interest to do so or in order "to close the transaction" (as Lord Reading CJ put it in Maskell v Horner, [1915] 3 KB 106,118). And often there is no mistake if the payor does not know whether the payment is one for which he was liable or is volunta......
  • Centro Internationale Handelsbank AG v Morgan Grenfell Trade Finance Ltd [QBD (Comm)]
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 3 March 1997
    ...ECR 5565; [1990] 2 CEC 22. Leaf v International GalleriesELR [1950] 2 KB 86. Letang v CooperELR [1965] 1 QB 232. Maskell v HornerELR [1915] 3 KB 106. Owens Bank Ltd v BraccoELR [1994] QB 509. Sarrio SA v Kuwait Investment Authority [1997] CLC 280. Steamship Mutual Underwriting Association L......
  • Huyton S.A. v Peter Cremer G.m.b.H. & Company
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • Invalid date
  • The "Acrux"
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 7 September 2004
    ...Chikuma, The [1981] 1 WLR 314; [1981] 1 Lloyd's Rep 371 (folld) Hamburg Star, The [1994] 1 Lloyd's Rep 399 (folld) Maskell v Horner [1915] 3 KB 106 (folld) People's Park Development Pte Ltd v Tru-Mix Concrete (Pte) Ltd [1981-1982] SLR (R) 242; [1980-1981] SLR 223 (refd) Rainbow Spring, The ......
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3 books & journal articles
  • Duress, Undue Influence, and Unconscionability
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books The Law of Contracts. Third Edition Vitiating Factors
    • 4 August 2020
    ...of Canada Ltd v Eakins Construction Ltd , [1906] SCR 361 at 380, Cartwright J [ Peter Kiewit ]. 23 See, for example, Maskell v Horner , [1915] 3 KB 106 at 120, Lord Reading CJ. 24 (1841), 11 Ad & El 983, 113 ER 688 (Ex) [ Skeate ]. THE L AW OF CONTR ACTS 410 that one’s goods may be lost “do......
  • Analyses: The Inducement of a Contract by ‘Duress of Goods’ – A Reappraisal
    • South Africa
    • South Africa Mercantile Law Journal No. , August 2019
    • 16 August 2019
    ...cases which represented the polarities of this rule were: (a) Astley v Reynolds (1731) 2 Str 915, 99 ER 939, and Maskell v Horner [1915] 3 KB 106 (CA), and (b) Skeate v Beale supra and Atlee v Backhouse (1838) 3 M & W 633, 150 ER 1298 at 650, 1305.) Was De Villiers CJ correct in drawing thi......
  • Labels and Meaning: Unjust Factors and Failure of Purpose as Reasons for Reversing Enrichment by Transfer
    • United Kingdom
    • Edinburgh Law Review No. , September 2014
    • 1 September 2014
    ...by P Gane, The Selective Voet (1955)) 12.6.6. The “deemed gift” argument is not unknown in the Common Law (see Maskell v Horner [1915] 3 KB 106 at The point is also made in modern South African law. According to De Vos J in Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers of SA v Die 1963 Ambagsaalvereni......

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