North British and Mercantile Insurance Company v London, Liverpool, and Globe Insurance Company

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CourtCourt of Appeal
Year1876
Date1876

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24 cases
  • China Insurance Company (Singapore) Pte Ltd v Liberty Insurance Pte Ltd (formerly known as Liberty Citystate Insurance Pte Ltd)
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 28 February 2005
    ...English Court of Appeal decision of North British and Mercantile Insurance Company v London, Liverpool, and Globe Insurance Company (1876) 5 Ch D 569. 15 It bears mentioning at this juncture that counsel for both parties accepted the fact that there was no “non-contribution clause” involved......
  • Caledonia North Sea Ltd v London Bridge Engineering Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 7 February 2002
    ...which it was part make it plain that primary liability was to fall on the contractor, just as in North British and Mercantile Insurance Company v London Liverpool and Globe Insurance Company (1877) 5 Ch D 569, on very different facts, it was held that the loss should be borne by the wharfin......
  • Deaves v Cml Fire & General Insurance Company Ltd
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • Invalid date
  • Commercial Union Assurance Company Ltd v Hayden
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 22 October 1976
    ...liability basis was applied, or even discussed. Now I come to two English cases where it was adopted. The first is North British and Mercantile Insurance Co. v. London, Liverpool and Globe Insurance Co., (1877) 5 Chancery Division, 569, which came before Sir George Jessel, Master of the Rol......
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5 books & journal articles
  • Table of cases
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Insurance Law. Second Edition Enforcing Insurance Contracts
    • 23 June 2015
    ...203 North British and Mercantile Insurance Co v Liverpool, London, and Globe Insurance Co (1877), 5 Ch D 569 (CA)..............................545, 547 North Lethbridge Garage Ltd v Continental Casualty Co, [1930] 2 DLR 835, [1930] 1 WWR 491, [1930] AJ No 39 (SCAD) .............. 328 Table ......
  • Rights of relief, subrogation and unjustified enrichment in Scots law
    • South Africa
    • Juta Acta Juridica No. , December 2019
    • 24 December 2019
    ...Esso Petroleum Co Ltd 1987 SLT 345 OH. 18 Nor th British and Mercantile Insurance Co v London, Liverpool and Globe Insurance Co (1877) L.R. 5 Ch D 569; Scholeeld Goodman & Sons Ltd v Zyngier [1986] AC 562; [1985] 3 WLR 953; Speno Rail Maintenance Australia Pty Ltd v Hamersley Iron Pty Ltd ......
  • Excess “Other Insurance” Clauses: to Contribute or Subrogate?
    • South Africa
    • Juta Stellenbosch Law Review No. , May 2019
    • 27 May 2019
    ...141 Merkin La w of Insurance 410. See al so North British and Mercantile In surance Co v Lon don, Liverpool and Globe Insu rance Co. (1877) 5 ChD 569, where the ab sence of double insu rance was seen as pr eclud-ing the applica tion of rateable propor tion clauses.142 See Eva ns v Marit ime......
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    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Insurance Law. Second Edition Enforcing Insurance Contracts
    • 23 June 2015
    ...caused to the grain; the policy issued by Rodocanachi’s insurer covered the proprietary interests of the owner of the grain. In these 4 (1877), 5 Ch D 569 (CA) [ North British ]. INSUR ANCE LAW 546 circumstances, “[o]ne company has no equity against the other.” 5 To the extent that Rodocana......
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