Re Fry. Whittet v Bush. Fry v Lane
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 1888 |
| Date | 1888 |
| Year | 1888 |
| Court | Chancery Division |
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85 cases
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Secured Property Loans Ltd v Floyd
...461 WISE FINANCIAL CO LTD v LANAGAN UNREP MCCRACKEN 6.11.2000 2000/18/6803 MCDERMOTT CONTRACT LAW 2001 PARAS 14.148-14.168 FRY v LANE 1889 40 CH D 312 MOFFAT v MOFFAT 1984 1 NZLR 600 DELANY EQUITY & THE LAW OF TRUSTS IN IRELAND 4ED 2007 ALEC LOBB (GARAGES) LTD & ORS v TOTAL OIL GB LTD 1983 ......
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Fong Whye Koon v Chan Ah Thong
...seems to be that they have the effect of placing one party at a serious disadvantage vis-Ã -vis the other.Kay J in Fry v Lane (1888) 40 Ch D 312 at p 322, after an analysis of the cases, said: The result of the decisions is that where a purchase is made from a poor and ignorant man at a con......
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Stewart (Gordon), Andrew Reid, Bay Roc Ltd v Merrick (Herman) Samuels
...in which there was no weakness of intellect but simply an undue advantage taken of inequality of bargaining power". He quoted Kay, J. in Fry v. Lane (1888) 40 Ch.D. 312 thus: "The result of the decisions is that where a purchase is made from a poor and ignorant man at a considerable underva......
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Howell Evans and Others v David Edward Rees Lloyd and Another
...or disadvantages for the purpose of this doctrine. The expression "a poor and ignorant man" is taken from the judgment of Kay J in Fry v Lane (1888) 40 Ch.D. 312 at 322. In Cresswell v Potter [1978] 1 W.L.R. 255, decided in 1968, Megarry J said that the principle in Fry v Lane remained good......
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10 books & journal articles
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CONTRACT LAW IN COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES: UNIFORMITY OR DIVERGENCE?
...lines of Commercial Bank of Australia Ltd v Amadio (1983) 151 CLR 447) as its starting point. 192 Oft-cited cases include Fry v Lane (1888) 40 Ch D 312 and Cresswell v Potter [1978] 1 WLR 255. The earliest cases were classified under the even more specific rubric of “expectant heirs” (see, ......
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CONSUMER PROTECTION, STATUTE AND
...Ltd v Total Oil (GB) Ltd[1983] 1 WLR 87; [1983] 1 All ER 944. 76 See Commercial Bank of Australia Ltd v Amadio(1983) 151 CLR 447. 77(1888) 40 Ch D 312 at 322. See also Cresswell v Potter[1978] 1 WLR 255. 78 See Rajabali Jumabhoy v Ameerali R Jumabhoy[1997] 2 SLR(R) 296 and E C Investment Ho......
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VITIATING FACTORS IN CONTRACT LAW — THE INTERACTION OF THEORY AND PRACTICE
...245 See generally Bamforth, “Unconscionability as a Vitiating Factor”[1995] LMCLQ 538. 246 See eg, the oft-cited decisions of Fry v Lane(1888) 40 Ch D 312 and Cresswell v Potter[1978] 1 WLR 255n. 247 [1983] 1 WLR 87; see also the Court of Appeal decision [1985] 1 WLR 173 at 181—183. 248 [19......
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Duress, Undue Influence, and Unconscionability
...70 DLR (3d) 192 at 196 (Ont CA), Evans JA [ Black ]. References to the earlier English authorities are collected in Fry v Lane (1888), 40 Ch D 312. 220 Waters , above note 218 at 402. 221 Ibid at 392, Osler JA. 222 Ibid at 406, Boyd C. Duress, Undue Influence, and Unconscionability 451 ref......
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