Mersey Steel and Iron Company v Naylor Benzon & Company

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date1883
Date1883
CourtHouse of Lords
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    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 26 July 1991
    ...... Angelos” [1971] 1 QB 164 (folld) Mersey Steel & Iron Co, The v Naylor Benzon & Co (1884) ... case were that the plaintiffs, a French company, orally agreed to sell goods exclusively to the ......
  • Halesowen Presswork & Assemblies Ltd v Westminster Bank Ltd
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    • House of Lords
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    ...statutory law, and if there were such an agreement as alleged by the debtors, that law put an end to it." 28In Mersey Steel & Iron Co. Ltd. v. Naylor, Benzon & Co. (1884) 9 App. Cas. 434 Lord Selborne said at p. 438:— "Your Lordships observe that it is not that it may be—it is not a thing w......
  • Decro-Wall International S.A. v Practitioners in Marketing Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 15 October 1970
    ...whether or not it does go to the root of the contract: see ( Mersey Steel & Iron Co. Ltd. v. Naylor, Benzon & Co. 9 Appeal Cases 434 per lord Blackburn at pages 443, 444); ( Hong Kong Fir Shipping Co. Ltd. v. Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd. 1962 2 Queen's Bench 26 per Lord Justice Diplack, pages......
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3 books & journal articles
  • RE-EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MUTUAL PROMISES IN CONTRACT LAW.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 45 No. 2, April 2022
    • 1 April 2022
    ...2 Ch 169, 182-3 (Lord Hanworth MR), 185-6 (Lawrence LJ) ('Guy-Pell), both quoting Mersey Steel & Iron Co vNaylor, Benzon & Co(1884) 9 App Cas 434, 443-4 (Lord Blackburn); Highfield (n 10) [213]-[215] (Blue (48) Kay(n 5) 40052-4 [67]-[81] (Brereton JA, Macfarlan JA agreeing at 40039 ......
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    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 1996, December 1996
    • 1 December 1996
    ...is a rule with regard to debts provable and is caught by the operation of s 327(2): see Mersey Steel and Iron Co v Naylor, Benzon & Co(1884) 9 App Cas 434 at 437—8. 51 See Re Bank of Credit and Commerce SA (No 8), supra, note 12, at 644E. 52 MS Fashions Ltd v Bank of Credit and Commerce Int......
  • TRUST FUNDS, ASCERTAINABILITY OF BENEFICIAL INTEREST AND INSOLVENCY SET-OFF
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 1996, December 1996
    • 1 December 1996
    ...is a rule with regard to debts provable and is caught by the operation of s 327(2): see Mersey Steel and Iron Co v Naylor, Benzon & Co(1884) 9 App Cas 434 at 437—8. 8 S 41(1) of the old Act is similar to s 88(1) of the new Act. Though there are some differences in the wording of the two pro......

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