May & Butcher Ltd v The King (Note)
Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
Date | 1934 |
Court | House of Lords |
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243 cases
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Popular Book Co Pte Ltd v Sea Sun FurnishingPte Ltd
...or an obligation on the part of the tenant to accept it. The rule applied by the House of Lords in May & Butcher Ltd v The King (Note) [1934] 2 KB 17 has not been overruled and is still good law.The alternative ground given by Buckley LJ in the Thomas Bates case (which was not expressly ado......
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Dakota Packaging Ltd v AGP Manufacturing BV
...Co. Ld. v. Canadian Flight Equipment Ld. [1955] 2 Q.B. 556; [1955] 3 W.L.R. 212; [1955] 2 All E.R. 722. May and Butcher Ltd. v. The King [1934] 2 K.B. 17. The Moorcock (1889) 14 P.D. 64. Morris v. Redland Bricks Ltd. [1970] A.C. 652; [1969] 2 W.L.R. 1437; [1969] 2 All E.R. 576. O. & E. Tele......
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2 firm's commentaries
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Challenge Jurisdiction Of GAFTA Arbitral Tribunal Under S.67 Of The Arbitration Act 1996
...valid arbitration agreement, there has to be an agreement of arbitration, as addressed by the House of Lords in May & Butcher v The King [1934] 2KB 17. In respect of evidence, the court found that the Defendant's further evidence supplied by Messrs Heston and Gurov failed to prove that GAFT......
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Challenge Jurisdiction Of GAFTA Arbitral Tribunal Under S.67 Of The Arbitration Act 1996
...valid arbitration agreement, there has to be an agreement of arbitration, as addressed by the House of Lords in May & Butcher v The King [1934] 2KB 17. In respect of evidence, the court found that the Defendant's further evidence supplied by Messrs Heston and Gurov failed to prove that GAFT......
7 books & journal articles
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Contract Law
...evidence of this in the present case: Stone World at [30]. 12.14 However, the learned judge's citation of May and Butcher, Ltd v The King[1934] 2 KB 17 at 21 (‘May & Butcher’) for the proposition that ‘undoubtedly price is one of the essentials of sale, and if it is left still to be agreed ......
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Building and Construction Law
...this amounted to a ‘fatal flaw’ in the plaintiff's case. She referred to the House of Lords decision in May and Butcher, Ltd v The King[1934] 2 KB 17 at 21, where Viscount Dunedin said that ‘undoubtedly price is one of the essentials of sale, and if it is left still to be agreed between the......
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RESOLVING AMBIGUITY THROUGH EXTRINSIC EVIDENCE
...of law, the courts will apply the law of the country with which the contract is most closely connected. 7 In May and Butcher, Limited v R[1934] 2 KB 17, the English Court of Appeal held that parties could not agree to agree on the price, and the test of reasonable price in the Sale of Goods......
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Interpretation of Contracts in Commercial Law: Competing Principles
...at 3. 14 Hereafter referred to as the 1893 Act. 15 Hugh Collins, The Law of Contract (4 th ed, LexisNexis, 2003), at 6. 16 Ibid. 17 [1934] 2 KB 17. 8 [1934] 2 KB 17, at 20. '9 [1992] 2 AC 128. [Vol. I11 20081 Interpretation of Contracts certainty. The same does not apply to an agreement to ......
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