Mussen v Van Diemen's Land Company

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1938
Year1938
CourtChancery Division
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27 cases
  • Castle Inn Sdn Bhd (No 2); LEC Contractors (M) Sdn Bhd
    • Malaysia
    • High Court (Malaysia)
    • 1 January 2001
  • Sik Hong Photo Sdn Bhd v Ch'ng Beng Choo (suing for and on behald of Ng Hua'a estate, deceased)
    • Malaysia
    • Court of Appeal (Malaysia)
    • Invalid date
  • Buckland v Farmar & Moody
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 10 February 1978
    ...absolved from future performance of his obligations under the contract is a more exact description of the position". 34 In Mussen v. Van Diemen's Land Company, (1938) Chancery, 253, Mr. Justice Farwell pointed out that the word is capable of two meanings. 35 The appellants say that in the ......
  • Stockloser v Johnson
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal
    • 12 February 1954
    ...offer to pay the instalments which were in arrear and be willing to pay the future instalments as they became due: and he relied on Mussen v. Van Dieman's and (1938, 1 Chancery, page 253). I think that this contention goes too far in the opposite direction. If the buyer was seeking to re-es......
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1 books & journal articles
  • The common law's hodgepodge protection of privacy.
    • Canada
    • University of New Brunswick Law Journal No. 66, January - January 2015
    • 1 January 2015
    ...classically, on an agreement to keep information confidential). (123) Mussen v Van Diemen's Land Co (1937), [1938] Ch 253 at 261, [1938] 1 All ER 210 ("The basis, and the whole basis ... of all equitable relief--is that that it is against conscience"); Re Diplock's Estate, [1948] Ch 465 at ......

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